Uri Simonsohn's website[1] is full of links to interesting papers by Simonsohn and his colleagues that illustrate the dangers of "researcher degrees of freedom"

Uri Simonsohn's website[1] is full of links to interesting papers by Simonsohn and his colleagues that illustrate the dangers of "researcher degrees of freedom" and back up the points you are making here. [1] http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/ http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/