MATAN SHELOMI2022-12-142022-12-142019https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85129817233&partnerID=40&md5=9bd063429651bb0983385258a2db86c5https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/626189The modern academic environment has increasingly less room for research that is not hypothesis-driven. Observational or descriptive research is viewed pejoratively, with proposals or papers that do not set about to test a hypothesis less likely to be accepted (Casadevall and Fang, 2008). Simply filling in a lacuna of knowledge is not seen as a worthy goal. More pragmatically, an observational study with no guarantee of a falsified or supported hypothesis that can be published is not seen as a solid investment. © CAB International 2020. All rights reserved..book chapter2-s2.0-85129817233