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Re:A blog post leads to doubts about Cornell’s food laboratory by erikpukinskis on Saturday April 01, 2017 @08:16PM (#14014939)
Is this another example of why journals should publish negative results? Is there a way to review papers where you are just evaluating the soundness of the methodology regardless of results?

"Do good science" is easier to set up reliable cultural practices around than "discover something new".

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Re:A blog post leads to doubts about Cornell’s food laboratory by apathy on Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:49PM (#14020118)
Preregistration, as demanded for clinical trials, is essentially the only way to ensure that researcher degrees of freedom are avoided.

Buy the ticket, take the ride. Needless to say, it's a scary ride, so most groups won't do it.

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