20  Organising critique ✎ Outline

20.1 What to do in what order

  • Valuing your time
  • Prioritising the most informative checks

20.2 Critiquing what matters

  • Critique as awareness raising / confrontation of hubris

20.3 Meta-science findings should not be anonymised

  • The case for transparency in identifying problematic work

20.4 Communicating critique

  • Communication pathways to elicit correction of the scientific record and scientific belief
  • TODO: COSIG guidelines; material on how to inform editors about their almost unlimited power to retract and ask for more data; the need to ask the “did this even happen” question etc. this part of the book could be for editors.

20.5 Dealing with common responses

  • “Do the numbers matter?”
  • Sometimes people are accused of not having the expertise/credentials to critique, but no-one needs credentials to cite
  • “No critique, only cite”