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How much P-Hacking happens in Academia and have you seen it happen?

Since often times with academics under pressure to produce results to get grant money and the threshold or cut off for statistically significant data is often a p-value of .05, I’ve read about some researchers needing to manipulate data to fit that .05 so they can publish. 

But how often does it happen?
gpt
I took a research design class taught by a social psychologist and she actually said that “dependent variables are cheap” when designing an experiment. In other words, test as many things as possible after doing an experimental manipulation and one of them will be significant.