The real problem is we have a lot of data. So it is easy to shove it all into a computer and then see what comes out. This is not a bad thing, but it isn't alone a result to publish it is instead justification to do a real study on whatever thing statistics turns up as a significant result to make sure it really is when you properly isolate for that data.
There’s also the issue that in psych, everything is measured through indirect proxies and most of the predictions will be directional. That gives experimenters a LOT of wiggle room.
In physical science you can often directly measure a phenomenon and have a theory that makes very specific predictions
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The real problem is we have a lot of data. So it is easy to shove it all into a computer and then see what comes out. This is not a bad thing, but it isn't alone a result to publish it is instead justification to do a real study on whatever thing statistics turns up as a significant result to make sure it really is when you properly isolate for that data.
There’s also the issue that in psych, everything is measured through indirect proxies and most of the predictions will be directional. That gives experimenters a LOT of wiggle room.
In physical science you can often directly measure a phenomenon and have a theory that makes very specific predictions