These kinds of stories have been popping up on HN with seemingly increasingly frequency over the last couple years, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

These kinds of stories have been popping up on HN with seemingly increasingly frequency over the last couple years, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19445827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19445827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585391 Long story short: most scientific disciplines are in crisis in part because of pervasive p-value hacking, and other statistics abuses likely motivated by perverse academic/personal incentives and/or biases.