Let’s Publish Everything

The other day someone pointed me to this article by James Kaufman and Vlad Glǎveanu in a psychology journal which begins:

This claim is situated in the context of a fight in psychology between the traditionalists (who want published work to stand untouched and respected for as long as possible) and replicators (who typically don’t trust a claim until it is reproduced by an outside lab). And if an Association for Psychological Science journal doesn’t want to publish your article (perhaps because you don’t have personal connections with the editors; see P.S. below), then you can publish it in some other journal. Similarly, people who have criticized Sternberg’s policy of filling up journals with papers by himself and his friends, and suppressing dissent, have done so because they too feel that psychology is important—important enough that they want to stop the implementation of policies that they think will slow down research in the field.

Source: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu