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• The discipline involved in the publication of reproducible results can actually lead to higher quality science: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a.html

In studies for which findings could be reproduced, authors had paid close attention to controls, reagents, investigator bias and describing the complete data set. For results that could not be reproduced, however, data were not routinely analysed by investigators blinded to the experimental versus control groups. Investigators frequently presented the results of one experiment, such as a single Western-blot analysis. They sometimes said they presented specific experiments that supported their underlying hypothesis, but that were not reflective of the entire data set. . .

• A recent study discusses the important of publications that report on negative results:
  • http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010271

• "U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, provides reliable high-bandwidth network services to thousands of researchers tackling some of the most pressing scientific and engineering problems, such as finding new sources of clean energy, increasing energy efficiency, understanding climate change, developing new materials for industry and discovering the nature of our universe."

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-04-26/esnet_launches_architecture_to_help_researchers_deliver_on_data-intensive_science.html