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Re:A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports by knzhou on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:49PM (#22295262)
99% of experiments in fundamental physics "don't work" in this sense. All of them get published. If you got funded to build an apparatus, people are going to want to know what you saw.

You can check for yourself, by looking at the experimental papers on the arXiv [0]. Every paper here that mentions data, but doesn't have the word "discovery" in the title, is a negative result. There are thousands of such papers.

0: https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/current

Re:A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports by mortenjorck on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:41PM (#22295517)
I suppose you could think of it as an unexplored continent that has very specific requirements to survey each region. You mount an expedition, and you probably just find more trees and brush. The important thing, though, is that now that area is on a map, and the map keeps getting bigger.