It's a rather old subject, and much richer than just publication bias, so there's plenty written about it. There is a good introduction on Andrew Gelman's blog,

It's a rather old subject, and much richer than just publication bias, so there's plenty written about it. There is a good introduction on Andrew Gelman's blog, for example. http://andrewgelman.com/2016/03/05/29195/ http://andrewgelman.com/2016/03/05/29195/ http://andrewgelman.com/category/zombies/ http://andrewgelman.com/category/zombies/ In particular, publication bias isn't quite as bad as the garden-of-forking-paths issue.