Andrew Gelman blogs http://andrewgelman.com/2012/02/false-positive-psychology about a paper which explains how to not torture your experimental data until it confesses a false positive result, including a worked example which falsely concludes that certain songs can change the age of the listener. From Cornell no less.
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