I'm under the impression that there was a paper on "ego depletion" has sort of become a poster child for p-value hacking. It has sort of poisoned the topic. Upon learning of such a hack one should rationally revert to a null hypothesis, not revert to the assumption that the hacked conclusion was false.

As a climber I see ego depletion happen all the time. You find a crumbly hold, or get harassed by an insect, or whatever else it is, and you conclude that the next move is the crux. Then other people climb it and nobody agrees with you--that move was one of the easier ones. Anecdata, of course, I just wish we could learn from the bad science and then be washed clean, rather than be haunted by it.