The Continuity Project

Governance

Advisory board

Four independent tracks review the programme. Appointments are published, remits are explicit, and reviewers are free to disagree with us in public.

Scientific advisors

Researchers from psychology, cognitive science, statistics-adjacent experimental fields and anomalistics who review design validity and interpretation.

  • Review protocol drafts before preregistration
  • Assess whether stated conclusions follow from the data
  • Flag confounds and information-leakage pathways

Appointments

Statistics advisors

Statisticians responsible for analysis plans, power estimation, multiplicity control and reliability measurement.

  • Approve the preregistered analysis plan and thresholds
  • Define exclusion rules before data are seen
  • Verify reported effect sizes, intervals and reliability coefficients

Appointments

Ethics advisors

Reviewers with research-ethics or bereavement-support expertise who hold participant welfare above data collection.

  • Review consent materials and withdrawal procedures
  • Set safeguards for grief-sensitive participation
  • Rule on any protocol that would expose identifying material

Appointments

Independent skeptics / methodological reviewers

Reviewers appointed specifically to attack the design. Their remit is to find the conventional explanation before we publish, not after.

  • Attempt to reproduce results through non-anomalous routes
  • Audit blinding, randomization and exposure logs
  • Publish dissenting commentary alongside any study report

Appointments

We actively welcome methodological criticism

Methodological criticism is a deliverable, not an obstacle. Reviewers are credited, and objections that change a design are recorded in the protocol history with attribution.

Independent reviewers are not required to share any assumption about the research question, and are never asked to soften a critique before publication.

A reviewer may publish a dissenting note attached to any study report. We do not hold veto over its content.

Join a review track

Apply as a methodological reviewer, as a statistician, or read what would change our minds before you decide.