Dear Mrs Rankovic,
I think you may have misread Mr Schoof's email. It says that if
the pre-registration documents make it through peer-review, they
are "
provisionally accepted for publication". I don't think
this excludes rejecting the manuscript if the subsequent data
collection or analysis is of poor quality. In fact, as
this page
illustrates, manuscripts can still be rejected at the second stage
of review (which happens after the data have been collected and
analyzed).
Pre-registration helps tackle important, and sometimes
underestimated, problems in scientific publishing, namely lack of
replication, selective reporting and publication bias, and
shouldn't be dismissed offhand.
All the best,
Mr Besle
On 04/06/2018 14:51, Christine Rankovic wrote: