[TeMPOraL]

Yeah. This is what's absolutely missing in many scientific fields, and seems to be the reason for so many results turning out to be utter bullshit (hello, psychology). There's a strong push coming from research community to make this approach, which is known as 'study pre-registration', mandatory.

[lucozade]

Presumably pre-registration could also help with positive results bias.

Assuming the registration was made public, one could mandate that something had to be produced from the study, if only a statement that nothing was found.

Wouldn't solve the problem but would presumably aid meta-studies?