This review is submitted on the condition that the authors will receive exactly the same text as the selection committee, my name and this notice included. Signed reviews are the only way I know to fix the current flawed review system in computer science.

Just like docters take the oath of Hippocrates, all PhD-candidates should take an oath of scientific integrity. That is the view of three professors and members of the "De Jonge Akademie" in an article published in NRC Handelsblad 25-02-2012.

In August 2012 Masicampo & Lalande published a paper showing that p-values were much more common immediately below .05 than would be expected based on the number of p-values occurring in other ranges. They discuss potential sources of this pattern, including publication bias and researcher "degrees of freedom" in using self-serving practices (such as to stop data collection when the desired results have been attained or selective exclusion of outliers, selective use of covariates etcetera).