I know, that this doesn't help really, but in plasma physics as well as when dealing with degenerate matter and such 8 and 3 are the same number. Most of the time a scientist in these fields is happy to get the order of magnitude right! ;P
A preprint will still give less value to the negative result. No peer review (being a broken system or not) and not being published in a "proper" journal will make it less likely that the results will be recognised / accepted.
The whole point is, that a negative result can have as much value as a positive one...
...somewhat off topic...
I seem to remember a JavaScript based system that could be installed on (old) mobile phones. This way one had easy access to all the phones sensors, wifi and could build simple GUIs to repurpose the phone.
Does anyone know how it is called or where I can find something similar? Thanks =)
"The" EU is not a monolithic thing, there are liberal and conservative factions. Depending on the topic the resulting consensus can move quite a bit on that spectrum...