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I think "jail the professors" is too extreme. There needs to be a more constructive solution.

I completely agree with your assessment of the problem.

(Careful, heard this "story" about dcposch, he might send you to jail too.)

On more factual note, it's a known issue that as you move from hard to soft sciences that positive results increase:

Fields studying topics like "happiness" tend to validate their hypothesis over 90% of the time; which means something fishy is going on.

Or they just chose to test something fairly obvious, like that people that are good at things are considered more attractive than people who aren't.

... or negative results are a lot less likely to be accepted for publication.

The better solution is to stop funding them, although I wouldn't know how to locate the source.