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by shirederby 4800 days ago
The "Salmon study" was an illustration of the necessity of correcting for multiple comparisons in voxel-wise testing. The problem it's addressing isn't itself data dredging, based on the definition linked above on Wikipedia.

Uncorrected multiple comparisons are, of course, a big portion of the statistical dubiousness inherent it "data dredging"