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		calf on Dec 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: About Google's approach to research publication – ... That's no justification for the rationale that critique or negative results in general are not paper worth or do not advance science in less short-sighted ways.

BeetleB on Dec 4, 2020 [–]

I wasn't discussing the appropriateness - I was pointing out that this behavior is normal in science. Your original comment was:

> Since when is a scientific paper required to do that.

Unfortunately, for a long time (since well before my time, at least).

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