Thank you for your response. Well, I was hoping to get some discussion by scientists going here. I agree, these should not be forced by coercion but by agreement that these are useful and necessary prescriptions to do better science. We all know from talking to colleagues that many results in pain research are dubious or irreproducible, and that has many causes, but one might be poor design or poor reporting or both. We should be transparent about those issues and work to improve the quality of our science. Doesn’t need to be ARRIVE. They just did a lot of work that seems sensible.
For pain research specifically, here is a consensus statement in PAIN from a few years back
Whether and to what extent these have been adopted, I’m not sure.
