My comment about relevancy was more in line with @jdoliner's in the neighboring thread. I totally agree that tools and practices weren't quite there at the time

My comment about relevancy was more in line with @jdoliner's in the neighboring thread. I totally agree that tools and practices weren't quite there at the time and that things are different now. The takeaway from Salmon experiment IMO is not specific to fMRI: you cannot trust a single technique or field "golden" standard (whether flawed or not), and should rather pursue accuracy across different pre- post-processing methods. That's not realistically doable single-handily (at least in my experience), but in the current age it should become the norm to rely on publically available pipelines, probably with some sort of configuration files or even GUIs. I personally worked with fMRI only sparingly, so cannot comment on that in the context of the posted article.