An initial (i) _______ among journal editors in favor of positive findings, rather than any genuine superiority of confirmatory studies, accounts for the early literature on a newly introduced imaging method reporting successful outcomes so disproportionately often. The publication climate reverses only after the technique has (ii) _______ into clinical guidelines and residency curricula alike; at that stage, editors come to prize studies whose primary contribution is to (iii) ______ the very consensus that has since formed around the once-contested approach.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. predilection	D. fallen into disuse	G. corroborate
B. hostility	E. been shown to be unreliable	H. chronicle
C. obliviousness	F. been formally codified	I. complicate