My work was uplifting people, or so I told myself. Looking back, I suspect that feeling like I was on the right side of history was a kind of moral cover. Maybe I felt less wrong about the p-hacking because I was promoting social justice. The conclusions I drew were what the good guys already believed, after all.
Michael Inzlicht
The psychologist who publicly reflected on his own p-hacking and its entanglement with ideological motivation.