The significance of the dead salmon paper is waaaay overblown. That paper was a warning to researchers that family-wise error corrections are, indeed, importan

The significance of the dead salmon paper is waaaay overblown. That paper was a warning to researchers that family-wise error corrections are, indeed, important. A small (but non-negligible) portion of researchers were not doing these corrections simply because "the results looked nicer". The dead fish guys wanted to demonstrate the extent to which this could produce false positives. The (rightly) make no comment on the soundness of fMRI as a tool for cognitive science.