knysna comments on Follow-up on ESP study: "We don't publish replications" - Less Wrong

71 Post author: CarlShulman 12 July 2011 08:48PM

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Comment author: knysna 12 July 2011 09:31:43PM 3 points [-]

A better way for JPSP to have handled Bem's paper would be to invite comments from reputable scholars before publishing it, and then print the comments (and replies from Bem et al.) in the same issue. Other journals have followed this strategy with particularly controversial articles.

As it stands now, JPSP (the premier social psych journal) just looks ridiculous.

Comment author: CarlShulman 13 July 2011 02:01:27AM 2 points [-]

I believe they did publish a rebuttal in the same issue, but that didn't allow the time needed for replications.