The argument that airing our dirty laundry in public will reduce trust in science seems even more misconceived when we look at the sheer amount of worthless, misleading and fundamentally untrustworthy research we’re putting out into the world. Every time we allow a flawed or obviously biased study to be published; every time we write another boy-who-cried-wolf press release that can’t be backed up by the data; every time a scientist writes a popular book full of feel-good-but-flimsy advice, we hand science’s critics another round of ammunition. Fix the science, I’d suggest, and the trust will
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