Why an increase in boring study results is an important advance for medicine

Positive results are exciting. We have a natural curiosity about the powerful new cholesterol-lowering drug or fresh research showing spicy food might stave off diseases of aging. But for years it's been increasingly apparent that this interest in positive results is skewing what we know about science, with the ho-hum results that show a drug didn't really work or an experiment failed falling through the cracks... By Carolyn Johnson.

http://www.washingtonpost.com