It is amazing how much junk gets published in academia and how many shady practices there are. One professor in my old department used to make slight changes to a paper and methodologies and publish to another journal. He had dozens of publications this way.
Another professor that was a friend of my professor asked us to cite his paper. I was never able to replicate his results, but we still sited it anyways.
One professor used to hunt around for different statistical tests until she found one which gave her the desired p values so she could publish.
One of the PhD students I worked with would draw absurd conclusions from the data. He would see an effect when there wasn't one. He was regularly shown to be wrong when we did statistical analysis, but he never changed his ways. He is currently doing his postdoc at a very well known institution.
The worst part though is that I have also come across many genuine and hard working professors and labs who take time to scrutinize their work and produce good results. They end up losing the tenure battle.
Another professor that was a friend of my professor asked us to cite his paper. I was never able to replicate his results, but we still sited it anyways.
One professor used to hunt around for different statistical tests until she found one which gave her the desired p values so she could publish.
One of the PhD students I worked with would draw absurd conclusions from the data. He would see an effect when there wasn't one. He was regularly shown to be wrong when we did statistical analysis, but he never changed his ways. He is currently doing his postdoc at a very well known institution.
The worst part though is that I have also come across many genuine and hard working professors and labs who take time to scrutinize their work and produce good results. They end up losing the tenure battle.