The path on which a theory is set eventually becomes obvious to everyone—except perhaps the theorist. And this is how adversarial collaborations can advance science without adversaries changing their mind.

They have to preregister their plans on a public site, and, in articles they publish later, they are obligated to focus on the results that they... See more

We theorists are not fully aware of the extent to which the experiments we plan and carry out are biased to favor our theoretical point of view.