Today’s Vancouver Sun suggests that a competitive university culture discourages sharing of knowledge, which then leads to the publication of many flawed and fraudulent studies. This is a rehash of issues I cited recently with the warning Beware of obvious answers and positive results. It would be great, albeit a bit boring, if journals published negative results from well-designed experiments with adequate power to see beneficial results. As my colleague Wayne Adams says
“Most of what you learn from an experiment is what NOT to do.”
PS. I took this picture Granville Island looking across to downtown Vancouver.