I imagine this was not your intention, but I’m a little worried that this comment will have an undesirable chilling effect
I agree it might have this effect, and that it would be bad if that were to happen (all else equal). But I’d much rather have researchers with good beliefs given the evidence they have rather than researchers with lots of evidence but bad beliefs given that evidence.
(As with everything, this is a tradeoff. I haven’t specified exactly how you should weight the tradeoff, because that’s hard to do.)
I agree it might have this effect, and that it would be bad if that were to happen (all else equal). But I’d much rather have researchers with good beliefs given the evidence they have rather than researchers with lots of evidence but bad beliefs given that evidence.
(As with everything, this is a tradeoff. I haven’t specified exactly how you should weight the tradeoff, because that’s hard to do.)