I agree, but not all TV.. "Failure is always an option." - tshirt Adam Savage on Mythbusters. ;)

I often remind myself that "No is an answer too." when doing research or other time-hole work.

Tell that to the journals...

Journals usually publish negative results from major experiments. Here's the one for LUX

http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118...

Yea my layman understanding is that it's a social pressure to not publish the results in the first place.

It depends, lots of these experiments result in better bounds on theories. LUX for example pushed down the cross-section for WIMP dark matter below the previous measurement. That in itself is an advancement, with implications on what theories for dark matter are possible.

It literally says that in the second paragraph.

I was at a conference this morning and heard results from a highly anticipated clinical study, with millions of dollars in NIH funding. The results were disappointing for me and some others in the field, but I think that it's better to have the negative result than to not know what is best for patients given our current techniques.

Indeed, but unfortunately the lack of positive results is not a negative result in itself... This is when explaining a megaproject to the funders starts to become harder and harder.