When ‘exciting’ trumps ‘honest’, traditional academic journals encourage bad science

"This seems like a big, abstract, hard-to-fix problem. But we actually have a solution right in front of us. All we have to do is continue changing the scientific publishing model so it no longer has anything to do with “interest” and is more open to publishing everything, as long as the methodology is sound. Open Access journals like PLOS ONE already do this. They publish everything they receive that is methodologically sound, whether it is straightforward or messy, headline-grabbing or mind-numbingly boring. Extending this model to every academic journal would, at a stroke, remove the single biggest incentive for scientists to hide inconvenient results...."