Confirmation bias is very strong with some people but come on. We're supposed to be scientists. We should actually care about the evidence and the methods. "I believe what I believe and I won't let facts get in the way of my faith" doesn't quite signal any interest in science.

The title of this piece confuses me so much. Where exactly is the soul searching in any of the quotes solicited from scientists? Is it the part about offering RRs as a blanket answer to science, the one with unshaken faith in the results, or the one blaming the journal?

The problem seems to be that the preregistration issues are the thing everyone wants to focus on but there kind of a red herring that distracts from the real inferential problems that are inherent in the study design.