I've certainly got into the habit of reading the methods and results of social science papers that make headlines and what I've found has been horrifying. More

I've certainly got into the habit of reading the methods and results of social science papers that make headlines and what I've found has been horrifying. More than half of the time, there are serious, serious flaws involved in the data collection or the analysis. Even worse, I've frequently encountered situations where the underlying data really seems to point toward the opposite conclusion than the one made by the researchers who have really twisted and beaten the data into submission to get the conclusion they wanted.