Of course it’s not all intentional. And it may not even be unethical by their standards as far as certain kinds of p-value hacking are allowed and journals are

Of course it’s not all intentional. And it may not even be unethical by their standards as far as certain kinds of p-value hacking are allowed and journals are sometimes are hesitant to call out problems. But there’s been a huge amount of questionable behavior and there has to be personal responsibility with that. It’s not an overstatement to call this part of one of the biggest failures of science in history, and you can’t just sweep that under the rug as unintentional. As far as pop science I’m not addressing that but those sins don’t exonerate everything else. I don’t get what you mean about Popper either, he likely would’ve been all over the reproduceability crisis and calling out integrity as a key issue. Yes, science is self-correcting and things have definitely started to improve after learning from all of this. But the damage has been done. at the time when we need science, the most it’s been discarded by a significant part of the population.