Comment by isthatafact

A huge benefit of that is that it would force the publication of null results, although there would still be no incentive for others to cite null result publications, and citations are unfortunately the main metric that determines the "value" of a scientist. Is there a way to make null result publications valuable?

Also, forcing pre-registration on everyone would be problematic because some types of research are not well-suited to strict planning and committee approval -- how would you quickly make adjustments to an experiment? how would you do exploratory data analysis? serendipitous discoveries would be suppressed? etc.