A funder-backed, indexed journal of negative and inconclusive cancer results
Create a proper, indexed journal that publishes failed experiments and trials quickly, with fees paid by funders so that there is no barrier to reporting failure.
Previous attempts (the Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine, which ceased in 2017) lacked funder backing and prestige. A journal owned by a consortium of major cancer funders, indexed in PubMed, with rapid methods-focused review, no publication charge, and citation in funders' progress reports would create a credible venue. Rigour of methods, not direction of result, is the acceptance criterion.
- Failures are hidden · Negative trials, failed drugs and abandoned programmes are rarely published, so the same mistakes are repeated.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- IdeaGrant progress reports must list what did not work
Shares A registry for preclinical experiments that did not work, Failures are hidden, Cancer Research UK.
- IdeaLiving systematic reviews of animal and organoid evidence before every new trial
Shares A registry for preclinical experiments that did not work, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaA target de-risking index that counts failures as well as successes
Shares A registry for preclinical experiments that did not work, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaBounties for documented failed replications of high-impact findings
Shares A registry for preclinical experiments that did not work, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaAutomatically detect when a trial changes its outcomes after the fact
Shares PubMed & Europe PMC, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaAn annual map of high-burden questions that nobody is funding
Shares PubMed & Europe PMC, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaA home for the animal and organoid experiments that failed
Shares Failures are hidden, Cancer Research UK.
- IdeaPre-register animal efficacy studies like clinical trials
Shares Failures are hidden, Cancer Research UK.