&gt; If I publish a paper people want to know what the data I found suggests and that&#x27;s it.<p>What they&#x27;re going to get, is what your data <i>and your modelling assumptions</i> suggest.<p>If you&#x27;re taking just as much care to make the rest of your model unassailably objective, then fair enough. But a prior is usually just one modelling assumption amongst many.