> How much social policy was being enacted in the name of p-hacked psychology and social science? How much of our baseline ideologies? I'm interested in how of

> How much social policy was being enacted in the name of p-hacked psychology and social science? How much of our baseline ideologies? I'm interested in how often some interest group pays for p-hacked results so that they can use it to strengthen their position in some way? In my opinion, it's very hard to have good science whenever there is external money in the picture. The temptation/pressure to slightly tweak the variables or scope of the study to achieve a desired outcome for the benefactor is just too high. The worst part is that this allows people to strengthen their biases by cherry picking "scientific studies" that seem to agree with their position even if intuitively something doesn't seem right. And science is the highest authority you can appeal to, so there is no way to refute it short of funding your own, better study that arrives at the opposite conclusion.