[PurpleBoxDragon]

As you point out, there is already a major issue when dealing with honest scientists who have to work in a publish or perish model where funding is based on getting results. But if we were to tweak the parameters so that there are at least some biased scientists and that the finding sources are biased for certain results (other than just any result where p < 0.05), and we take into account a subset of society looking for 'scientific support' of their personal convictions, the issue becomes much worse.

Look at how much damage was done by science misleading people about nutrition in regards to carbs and fats. How often, especially from the social sciences, does some scientific finding get reported by popular media as some major finding which should have drastic effects on social/legal policy, only for the root experiment to be a single study with a p < 0.05 where the authors caution against drawing any conclusions other than 'more research is needed'? Violence and media is a good example, and even more so when we consider the more prurient variants thereof.

I think this is the basis of why I am more willing to trust new research in physics more than in sociology.