Scientific method: Statistical errors

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Another long but good article that goes in depth as to how 'p-hacking' works and how it's a systemic problem in much of published research:

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-a...ior-78858/

The entire field of biomedical research, for instance, was shaken recently when researchers at the pharmaceutical firm Amgen reported that, in search of new drugs, they had selected 53 promising basic-research papers from leading medical journals and attempted to reproduce the original findings with the same experiments. They failed approximately nine times out of 10.

It's a shame that even peer reviewed publishing of studies yields scientific findings that are just flat-out incorrect because of statistical massaging. There seems to be a fundamental systemic issue with the way modern science is practiced due to flawed statistics. Unfortunately, it seems that this problem isn't yet widely known or acknowledged.