That rule would make it difficult to report on a failure to replicate a published paper.
Every paper needs to include an independent replication of the study.
Does some sort of batched style of research already exist? By batched, I mean a study where n number of teams all agree on a single methodology, and then conduct the same experiment simultaneously. Each team could then publish their results independently and the teams could publish one aggregate.
I know meta studies attempt to do this in a way, but they can sometimes have their own problems too.
I cannot recall coming across this style of research in much of what I have read as a hobby, but maybe it is more common in some domains than others? I am not smart, and there is nothing new under the Sun, so surely something like this exists, no?
If the failure is replicated by multiple groups, that would be reportable.
Otoh, not sure that anyone wants to read a report that some finding that nobody reported on couldn't be replicated.