We need to understand that going forward, if this sort of policy becomes common across journals, every edge case, every minor disagreement over a subtlety of a statistical technique, every misunderstanding that a reviewer *later reverses their opinion on* will now be part of what we have to deal with in the public discussion of science.

A discussion where the loudest voices on the anti-science side are often disingenuous from the start.

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