Journal Devoted to the Null Hypothesis

Posted by michael on Monday May 6, 2002 @12:35AM from the office-decorated-with-demotivator-posters dept.

Xcott R13, 3(0,R4) writes "It may sound dull even for academia, but I personally am thrilled that someone is starting a journal devoted entirely to scientific research that fails to produce significant results. Researchers tend to publish successes, so we rarely ever read about experiments or approaches that didn't pan out, leaving future researchers to reinvent the square wheel. The "Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis" intends to make some of this valuable boring information available. And such a wonderful title: too bad it's an online journal, else I could put it on the bookshelf next to the Annals of Improbable Research. Causing an explosion that would destroy the Universe."

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Don't bother by PhysicsGenius · 2002-05-06 01:42 · Score: 1, Funny

"I could put it on the bookshelf next to the Annals of Improbable Research. Causing an explosion that would destroy the Universe."
No, I tried this and the universe wasn't destroyed. See last month's issue for details.