If your job effectively consists of telling other researchers how to do their job; what happens to your credibility if you drop the ball in your own research? What if you don’t always practice what you preach, or if you make mistakes?
For the monthly Meta-Research Center blog, I wrote about these dilemmas. Should meta-researchers be held to higher standards to be taken seriously? In the end, I concluded that good science isn’t about being perfect, it’s about being transparent, adaptable, and striving to do better.
Read the full blog here: Should meta-scientists hold themselves to higher standards? — Meta-Research Center