Adversarial collaboration
In science, adversarial collaboration is a term used when two or more scientists with opposing views work together. This can take the form of a scientific experiment conducted by two groups of experimenters with competing hypotheses, with the aim of constructing and implementing an experimental design in a way that satisfies both groups that there are no obvious biases or weaknesses in the experimental design.
Adversarial collaboration has been recommended by Daniel Kahneman and others as a way of resolving contentious issues in fringe science, such as the existence or nonexistence of extrasensory perception.
Philip Tetlock and Gregory Mitchell have discussed it in various articles. They argue:
