Opinion | How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research

Link: Opinion | How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research: "Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other statistical sins. We must break these habits."

As early as 2005, alarm bells were going off over unrigorous social-science research — that was the year John P.A. Ioannidis, a Stanford professor of medicine, published “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” in PLOS Medicine.