> In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations studied may outweigh the benefit of publication. I see a counterfactual claim ("may outweigh") and

> In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations studied may outweigh the benefit of publication. I see a counterfactual claim ("may outweigh") and therefore an opportunity for some causal identification, i.e. a scientific answer! An RCT would be ideal, but we might also look to the literature on attitude change in general to see how new information impacts discourse and attitudes. Here's a few things off the top of my head: * https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/692739 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/692739 * https://alexandercoppock.com/graham_coppock_2021.html https://alexandercoppock.com/graham_coppock_2021.html * https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-071620-030619 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-... I think that in general, researchers find racial/prejudicial attitudes very resistant to change, either in an anti-prejudicial or "confirm my existing biases" direction...