>With modern tools, it’s easy to torture a data set to produce some sort of interesting-sounding result, even if it’s not really valid. And that’s before we get as far as outright fraud.
Sounds like a quote from "Statistics done wrong" which is full of examples like that
It’s really a terrible thing for the cause of Science. Many politically motivated groups and individuals are currently using “Science” as a cudgel to beat the non-conformists into conformity and silence those who demand scientific rigor.