 There has long been philosophical debate about what role values do and should play in science (Churchman 1948; Rudner 1953; Douglas 2016), and the reproducibility crisis is intimately connected to questions about the operations of, and interconnections between, such values. In particular, Nosek et al. (2017) argue that there is a tension between truth and publishability. More specifically, for reasons discussed in section 2 above, the accuracy of scientific results are compromised by the value which journals place on novel and positive results and, consequently, by scientists who value career success to seek to exclusively publish such results in these journals. Many others in addition to Nosek et al. (Hackett 2005; Martin 1992; Sovacool 2008) have taken also take issue with the value which journals and funding bodies have placed on novelty.