Registration: Not Just For Clinical Trials

In a previous post, I said that I'd write about how to improve the quality of scientific research by ending the scrabbling for "positive results" at the cost of accuracy. So here we go. This is a long post, so if you'd prefer the short version, the answer is that we ought to get scientists in many fields to pre-register their research - to go on record and declare what they are looking for before they start looking for anything.