On here if anyone has questions / pushback!

Claim like this, if it ain’t pre registered, isn’t blinded, and doesn’t have a power calculation, it ain’t a thing. Sorry.

The answer, of course, is 'it depends' - but it is by no means certain, and will require substantial change from the publication industry

100% - I think there has been a little too much dancing with the devil in some quarters. Onwards, without fear or favour.

see page 5 of assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7f90... - enshrined in UK law. But it is reasonable for govts to seek assurance that funds are well spent

Since I started looking at the reporting quality of animal research in the neurosciences (and in now way claiming causality!) - reporting of eg randomisation and blinding has pretty much doubled - so gradual improvement is happening all the time

There is always a challenge - speaking as a meta-scientist - to describe aspects of the research process which need to be improved, while not suggesting or implying we should rip it all up and start again.