alt Hacker NewsWhen we published the salmon paper, approximately 25-35% of published fMRI results used uncorrected statistics. For myself and my co-authors, this was evidence of shaky science. The reader of a research paper could not say with certainty which results were legitimate and which might be false positives.
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Thank you for publishing that paper, which I think greatly helped address this problem at the time, which you accurately describe. I guess things have to be taken in their historical context, and science is a community project which may not uniformly follow best practices, but work like this can help get everyone in line! It's unfortunate, and no fault of the authors, that the general public has run wild with referencing this work to reject fMRI as a experimental technique. There's plenty of different ways to criticize it today, for sure.
Hey, I know you got a lot of flack for the article. So, I just wanted to thank you for having the courage to publish it anyways and go through all of that for all of us.
I go back to the study frequently when looking at MRI studies, and it always holds up. It always reminds me to be careful with these things and to try to have other be careful with their results too. Though to me it's a bit of a lampooning, surprisingly it has been the best reminder for me to be more careful with my work.
So thank you for putting yourself through all that. To me, it was worth it.