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Careerism and P-Hacking in Medical Trials
Careerism can lead individuals to compromise research integrity by engaging in P-hacking techniques, such as selectively reporting data to support desired hypotheses. In medical trials, the issue of dropping out individuals who show improvement in the control group to ensure the treatment group performs significantly better is a common problem. This practice distorts the comparison between groups and undermines the credibility of study findings.