The basis of science is to have reproducible work. I would say the methods and results are the most important - everything else is just context
The methods section is the most important section of a paper.
Without knowing the methods, the results are literally meaningless.
So it's not OK to relegate the methods to the end. Because this suggests they are an optional afterthought rather than the essential core of the entire paper.
Peter Tennant
Donald Szlosek
As long as a paper's methods are described *somewhere* I don't think it matters where they are located in a manuscript
