Open Science and its Enemies. Part I: The p-circlers by the error bar

"i take this unique opportunity to provide the first of my three part critique of some parts of the Open Science movement. This episode focusses on p-circling & reverse p-hacking. These two pejorative terms describe situations where scientists who don't like* a particular reported effect, then decide to search for things in the paper which can 'un-explain' it. The reverse p-hacker turns a significant effect into a non-significant, or un-interesting one. These reverse p-hackers selectively adjust their version of data analysis for interpretation) to "remove" significant p-values. it's the same thing as p-hacking, but backwards. & equally wrong."