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P-hacking is a fine way to winnow through ideas to see what might be interesting to follow up on. There will certainly be false positives, but the real positives will usually be in there, too, if there are any. Determining which is which takes more work, but you need guidance on where to apply that work.

To insist that p-hacking, by itself, implies pseudo-science is fetishism. There is no substitute for understanding what you are doing and why.