But these checks are insufficient to convince a skeptical audience, is the point.
Yes, I see that as a feature, whereas you see to see it as somewhat of a bug. Given our propensity for self-deception and the limits of our brains, we should gather evidence, even when our intuition is very strong, and we should be suspicious of others who have strong intuitions, but don’t seem to have any sort of analytical evidence to back their claims up.
I don’t see any risk to hiding the origins of one’s ideas, if one has experimental evidence confirming them. Similarly, I don’t see the benefit of disclosing the sources of unconfirmed ideas. Where the idea comes from (a dream, an intuitive leap, an LSD trip, a reasoned inference from a literature review) is far less important than actually doing the work to confirm or disprove the idea.
Yes, I see that as a feature, whereas you see to see it as somewhat of a bug. Given our propensity for self-deception and the limits of our brains, we should gather evidence, even when our intuition is very strong, and we should be suspicious of others who have strong intuitions, but don’t seem to have any sort of analytical evidence to back their claims up.
I don’t see any risk to hiding the origins of one’s ideas, if one has experimental evidence confirming them. Similarly, I don’t see the benefit of disclosing the sources of unconfirmed ideas. Where the idea comes from (a dream, an intuitive leap, an LSD trip, a reasoned inference from a literature review) is far less important than actually doing the work to confirm or disprove the idea.