For about a year now, I've been meaning to write Henkjan Honing to argue against the position he expresses on
Computational modeling of music cognition: a case study on model selection. I started reading the paper from the beginning, and saw that the source of this view is
Roberts & Pashler - How Persuasive Is a Good Fit? A Comment on Theory Testing. This is Seth Roberts, the Berkeley psychologist who has done a lot of (and written about) self-experimentation.
Here is his blog.
Here is the LJ syndication I created.