The joke of self-correcting science: The Andero lab and Nature Communications | Introduction to the New Statistics

I’m sympathetic to Horgan’s claim that there’s something rotten in the state of science, I can get on board with the idea that our scientific luminaries are a bunch of asses and buffoons, and I’m even open to the possibility that large swaths of supposed scientific activity have basically become interpretative dance.

The path on which a theory is set eventually becomes obvious to everyone—except perhaps the theorist. And this is how adversarial collaborations can advance science without adversaries changing their mind.

They have to preregister their plans on a public site, and, in articles they publish later, they are obligated to focus on the results that they... See more

We also cover some of Chris’ personal passions over the years, including his attempts to reduce what he calls ‘research debt’ by starting a new academic journal called Distill, focused just on explaining existing results unusually clearly.