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36 | Laurence Hurst and the slime mold model of discovery

Night Science

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The Limits of Randomized Control Trials

Lawrence: I think there are limitations of that properly nailed our randomized control trial approach. There is this movement now to pre-register not only the randomized control trials but go further some people are motioning towards pre- registering everything every scientific project if you encounter it in a few places. Martin: It's a question of horses for courses one of the joys of science is that we're not machines we are intelligent thinking beings who are capable of exploring space and so long as we're doing it honestly.

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