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It already doesn't, null findings are simply not published.

Unless of course you want to reward null findings which might, depending on the circumstances, open another can of worms.

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At least in my field (high energy physics in the LHC), null findings are routinely published. Everybody who is searching for physics beyond the standard model publishes their null findings left and right.

Above, a commenter makes a distinction between negative and null result, saying that null results are those without any statistically significant conclusion (neither negative nor positive). Those don't get published, the BSM papers usually rule out parts of parameter space which makes them negative results.

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