One thing to note is that there's a ton of selection bias: noteworthy findings get published, non noteworthy ones do not. Therefore scientists will submit pape

One thing to note is that there's a ton of selection bias: noteworthy findings get published, non noteworthy ones do not. Therefore scientists will submit papers containing noteworthy findings. If you do 1,000 experiments in your lab, and (a) absolutely nothing interesting happens; (b) you get a naturally noisy dataset on each, and (c) you write up only those phenomena which would occur randomly only 5% of the time ... you will submit 50 articles, each of them claiming something noteworthy, and all of them false. Perhaps there are a few actually noteworthy things that were discovered in your lab. ...in which case in addition to the 50 BS papers, you'll also submit 1 or 2 that describe some real effect.