Editorial: Factualities – establishing empirical truths in child psychology and psychiatry

Empirical science is a fact‐finding enterprise. This raises the question when we know enough about a particular topic to draw firm conclusions and can stop searching for additional evidence in order to save efforts for issues that are less well‐established. Clarity on when scientific evidence has passed the stage of to‐be‐tested hypotheses is important, and setting up criteria for such stopping rules is a necessary as well as thought‐provoking...