To give a counter example: Kepler derived his laws from raw data provided by Tycho Brahe. I have difficulties to understand how p-hacking would be a problem in

To give a counter example: Kepler derived his laws from raw data provided by Tycho Brahe. I have difficulties to understand how p-hacking would be a problem in physics, for example. There may be fields open to it (particle physics?), but others certainly not, such as astronomy (afaik).