Opinion | How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research

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.

• Web site excerpt: Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other statistical sins. We must break these habits.

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