PEDIATRICS Vol. 94 No. 4 October 1994, pp. A36
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PUBLIC DEPOSITION OF HYPOTHESES, BEFORE DOING THE STUDIES

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Most papers do not carry at the end of the introduction a clear-cut hypothesis that is about to be tested, and when they do no-one can be sure that the words were not written when the data were already in...

There is a strong case for public deposition of hypotheses, lodged in advance of execution of a study.