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The article is about intentional error; however, I have found this to be very approachable and entertaining primer on (probably) unintentional error in research:

https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/

Research that has been further filtered onto your favorite infotainment coffee-table-science column further suffers from the 'eigonvalue' problem. I think assuming intentional fraud is excessive for a default position, but complete trust of any document formatted with Latex because "it's science" is probably worse.



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