You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends
One big problem is that journals agree to publish studies <i>after</i> they are completed, which means that publication in prestigious journals is based on the novelty of the result rather than on the validity of the study&#x2F;experiment. It&#x27;s an absolute fundamental of science that you go into it with an open mind, admitting that you do not know what the result will be. A good study&#x2F;experiment is not one which produces an interesting result, it&#x27;s one which is properly designed to answer the question it&#x27;s asking. Evaluating the quality of studies&#x2F;experiments based on their results is an anti-scientific practice which should be excised like the cancerous tumor it is. The best way to do that is to accept and commit to publish studies&#x2F;experiments based solely on their design, <i>before</i> the experiment&#x2F;study has actually been performed.