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Science and engineering recently found a champion in Ioannidis.

By careful planning and execution of our own experiments, we too become champions of credibility.

As experimentalists, we must be our own front‐line fact‐checker, tackling errors as they arise. We put effort into uncovering every reason to not believe our method, equipment, results, and especially our modeling. We diligently report the uncertainty of our measurements.

When you have completed an experiment, you must have assembled so much evidence of credibility that, like it or not, you have to believe the data. The experimenter must be on guard all the time, looking for anomalies, looking for ways to challenge the credibility of the experiment. If something unexpected happens, the diligent experimenter will find a way to challenge it and either confirm it or refute it. Let “except the experimenter” spur you to create experiments you can believe and defend.