P-hacking: its implication for science and scientific research

In a rapidly evolving scientifically and technologically savvy world, the globe never ceases to be inundated with revolutionary inventions and groundbreaking technology. The only way these inventions and discoveries would become endorsed and consequently patronized is by ascertaining their authenticity and validity through experimental research studies. Experimental research studies, thus, have become the fulcrum around which new interventions get to justify their inclusion through what I would metaphorically term as “preliminary stage competitions, following which successful experimental teams become seeded.” So yes, scientists are now in competition or better still, an intellectual rush to etch their names and products in the annals of scientific laurels. This arguably has led to the concept of what is now popularly known as “p-hacking.”