Can you explain what you mean by &quot;it simply gives the author&#x27;s a narrative to fake&quot;?<p>At the very least, pre-registration helps guard against the &quot;file-drawer&quot; effect, where a negative result simply goes in the trash, and no one ever knows it occurred.<p>If you mean that pre-registration will not prevent jiggling the results until the researcher gets a significant p-value, then I agree that many forms of pre-registration which lack registration of the analysis and so on will allow the authors to fake the narrative.