Are Academics Dishonest?

i would say probably the main factor affecting how honest people are is how likely thy are to get caught if they're dishonest. So intellectuals will be honest, specially carefully on things that, if they are dishonest, they will get caught likely and where the consequences would seem to be large. In fact, i don't think they care very much about whether or not their work has been replicated in other ways. The lim service for them is strong, whether the practice is strong is a different question. People who look at a literature can judge pretty well whether individual papers won't replicate. A lot of people search among specifications and then report the p for the specification as if they didn't do any search