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This practice, now known as P-hacking, was once endemic to most branches of science that rely on P values to test significance of results, yet few people realized how seriously it could distort findings. That started to change in 2011, with an elegant, comic paper in which the authors crafted analyses to prove that listening to the Beatles could make undergraduates younger

Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility

nature.com/articles/d41586-019

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