Johnson & Johnson has sued four doctors who published studies citing links between talc-based personal care products and cancer, escalating an attack on scientific studies that the company alleges are inaccurate.
Lack of publishing null results is a problem in science. A lot of journals don’t like null results and the types of journals that are happy to publish such (like PLOS) often cost money (only ~$1k-2k per article) but also a ton of time that researchers don’t have for something that would do nothing to benefit their careers.
I don’t think Showroom was saying which researchers did the study or implying any sort of ill intentions. Just scientists looking out for the careers, and spending a ton of time making a publishable article to say “we found nothing” isn’t exactly useful for them.
Lack of publishing null results is a problem in science. A lot of journals don’t like null results and the types of journals that are happy to publish such (like PLOS) often cost money (only ~$1k-2k per article) but also a ton of time that researchers don’t have for something that would do nothing to benefit their careers.
I don’t think Showroom was saying which researchers did the study or implying any sort of ill intentions. Just scientists looking out for the careers, and spending a ton of time making a publishable article to say “we found nothing” isn’t exactly useful for them.