Time and money were wasted, human experiments were performed, and no trace remains. Future researchers might repeat the same mistakes. In the worst case, the researcher is tempted to get "creative" with the data.

This is everything we stand against. We’ve been so immersed in this culture that “method research is different” that we thought that the reproducibility crisis did not apply. As fish do not see the surrounding water, we don’t see the publication bias because it’s all around us.