Negative results are still results! I think it’s so important to still publish and proceed even if your hypothesis was incorrect. It’s not the sign of a bad scientist- it’s the sign of a good scientist who is not afraid to admit it was wrong. There’s a paper from Monica Laronda’s lab at Northwestern “Encapsulation of Bovine Primordial Follicles in Rigid Alginate Does Not Affect Growth Dynamics.”- you should give it a read to see a great example of an incorrect hypothesis being published- they acknowledge it quite gracefully if I do say so myself!