Actually, it would appear that scientists did, in fact, kick everyone in the balls for 20 years: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/6/the-sta

Actually, it would appear that scientists did, in fact, kick everyone in the balls for 20 years: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/6/the-statistical-crisis-in-science/99999 http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/6/the-s... Perhaps it was accidental in most cases. However, in the field of medical studies, the withholding of studies with negative outcomes (and their data) could be rightly described as "highly unscrupulous" researcher behavior. And this has apparently been de rigeur in medical studies for some time, and continues today: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/05/scandal-drugs-trials-withheld-doctors-tamiflu http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/05/scandal... It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that published results are near worthless, if those publishing results are allowed to withhold studies. You just do studies until you get the results you want, and then publish that one. So, it is difficult to blame people for doubting things, when there is evidence of widespread "hacking" of results by so-called scientists.