The Transmitter | I Rayintakath
In a context where careers depend on novel, significant findings, the same flexibility that produced innocent disagreement at a hackathon has far greater consequences. A researcher who needs a small p-value to complete a story may be swayed by an analytical pipeline that delivers it, without ever leaving the bounds of what the field considers methodologically acceptable. This is not fraud. It is the ordinary, unremarkable consequence of too many defensible choices and too little transparency about which ones were made and why. There is no need to fabricate data when the analysis does it for you.