One of them was hyped in the media as a clean-cut fresh face that would restore fan confidence in a tired, scandal-plagued entertainment cartel—and the other is a retired baseball player.
(Reposted from last year because the topic remains important and because I think it’s a funny line.)
Preregistration is surely a good idea in many cases, but surely it will quickly morph into another meaningless supply-side legitimacy badge like so many of its predecessors (performative statistics, peer review, personal reputation, institutional prestige, I’m looking at you!). We should look more at the demand side of the problem.
Any ideas for making a dent in the strange demand for a high volume of publications of who-cares-what quality? I mean, I can accept that a few people in every field may have hundreds of big ideas that the world truly benefits from accessing. But most of us are quite fortunate to have one or two original ideas a year that actually work out and are worth encouraging others to spend some time thinking about.