I hate to break it to you, but academics certainly do get away with this practice. You simply don't have to report the 1000 results or hypothese that didn't ge

I hate to break it to you, but academics certainly do get away with this practice. You simply don't have to report the 1000 results or hypothese that didn't generate positive findings: also see publication bias. Indeed not only is it present, but due to the various ways academia ranks citations and papers, it's fairer to say it's actually incentivised by academic culture.