I like to use short metaphorically, outside of financial contexts. For example, the decision to own guns is short civilization, as others have put it. You may

I like to use short metaphorically, outside of financial contexts. For example, the decision to own guns is short civilization, as others have put it. You may be interested in prediction markets for study replication, where you can a real (financial) short position against bad studies: https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/11/18/how-i-made-10k-predicting-which-papers-will-replicate/ https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/11/18/how-i-made-10k-p...