What happens to all the scientific research that doesn't yield a dramatic outcome or, worse, the opposite of what researchers had hoped? It ends up stuffed in some lab drawer. This information -- call it dark data -- must be set free.
Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that promotes a discussion of unexpected, controversial, provocative and/or negative results in the context of current tenets.[...]
Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine strongly promotes and invites the publication of clinical trials that fall short of demonstrating an improvement over current treatments.