[1010RD]

The bigger problem is design of experiment where they intentionally design to hypothesis. Poor science education, particularly in soft sciences, leads to this error.

That plus having to satisfy a bureaucrat to get your funding.

[hinckley buzzard]

The impact of politics and money, yoked like a team of oxen, has undermined the entire scientific enterprise in sensitive areas. While "peer-reviewed" publications remain the coin of the academic realm, the ability to harvest grant money and keep it rolling in has become at least as important.

So what's a little data mining, filling in of empty points, or slipping alphas between friends when the results are not earthshaking, and besides, they are going to be in line with conventioal wisdom?