[dragonwriter]

> Some parapsychologists appear to rush to publish weak results and to claim success for flawed experiments.

So do some sciences in the supposedly "better" fields [1].

I think the fact of human nature at issue here isn't specific to any particular field of study.

[1] For a particularly well-known example, consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion#Fleischmann.E2.80.9...