Beyond avoidable suffering and death, failure to report research also slows the pace of scientific discovery. It is widely acknowledged that the high current level of investment in pharmaceutical research is yielding too few substantive discoveries.
除本可以避免的痛苦和死亡外，未公开研究成果也延缓了科学发现的步伐。人们普遍承认目前对药物研究投资取得的实质性成果太过微不足道。