Maybe you are right, but I have a chat with a person who did meta-research and as I understand they dig into articles, looking for methodology, and if they foun

Maybe you are right, but I have a chat with a person who did meta-research and as I understand they dig into articles, looking for methodology, and if they found methodology good enough they would incorporate that article into their meta-research. It impies trust in good intentions of others. But not the blind trust that anything was done by a scientist was done good. If logbook can be used to verify that data processing methods was picked before the first experimental subject came to a lab, then it is already a good sign. It could be much harder to do some p-hacking like [this](https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800 https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-choc...).