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Their wordsThis, as was noted on Twitter, is a recipe for bad studies: it encourages the cherry-picking of results that went your way and the hiding of those that didn’t.
Their wordsWe know how easily these practices can distort the scientific record and give us false-positive, nonsense results.
Their wordsHaving a pre-existing conclusion—a “take-home message”—in mind is one of the most reality-distorting influences on our thinking.
Their wordsA scientific paper isn’t supposed to be a story.
Their wordsThe mere act of squeezing a complex process into a few thousand words—limited by a journal-imposed word count—is itself a distortion of reality.