Cranberries can't cure UTIs, and other good reasons to publish negative research results
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These results were published on October 27 in the prestigious medical journal JAMA. For the experiment, older women living in nursing homes were administered cranberry capsules for a year, while others were given a placebo pill. The comparison did not reveal any significant difference in the presence of bacteria in their urine.
This work is the latest example of publication of a study yielding results that were the opposite of what was expected.
In the editorial that was published in the same journal, a Canadian researcher acknowledges this disappointment and writes that cranberry once constituted a nice hope in the fight against urinary tract infections, but that it is now time to move on to something else. Agen Slot Terpercaya
This proves that a so-called "negative study" is anything but useless.
Negative studies like this one are scarce in scientific journals today. Indeed, researchers tend to practice self-censorship; they don't even submit negative studies for publication. So my colleagues and I have created an online journal exclusively dedicated to the subject, called Negative Results.
We four founders are all young French researchers in biology: Antoine Muchir, Rémi Thomasson, Yannick Tanguy and Thibaut Marais. We're motivated by the same purpose, namely that scientific quests resulting in failure should be considered for what they are worth. And their results should be accessible to everyone.
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Leading international figures have joined our editorial committee and will help us guarantee the quality of the publications that will be put online. The American Alzheimer's researcher George Perry, from the University of Texas in San Antonio, has decided to gabung our tim, as has Columbia University nephrologist Simone Sanna-Cherchi. We aim to publish our first research articles by the end of the year.
