TogepiMain t1_j984icn wrote on February 19, 2023 at 11:54 PM

Reply to comment by yxwvut in Review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s research, colleagues allege by ScoMoTrudeauApricot

https://www.cos.io/initiatives/prereg

Pre register your paper! Calling your shot in science, so hot right now.

Seriously, millions and millions of dollars are wasted every year on repeated dead ends. Your paper showing hoe the thing you did didn't work? It is just as valuable. Sharing your mistakes is incredibly brave, and incredibly important. Every scientist that comes after you is able to reach further because you showed them where not to stray from the path.

yxwvut t1_j986j0k wrote on February 20, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Preregistration is great but even pre-registering isn’t a panacea. Pre-registered papers can still be silently dropped from publication so the macro paper-generating process still has an over-abundance of false positives if the negatives are dropped, and there can still be ambiguities in the analysis protocol where researchers can still impart influence over the results.

TogepiMain t1_j9a6btk wrote on February 20, 2023 at 12:51 PM

True. But even if the paper isn't published the timestamp of the hypothesis is there