Stanley Young is Director of Bioinformatics at the National Institute for Statistical Sciences, and gave a talk in 2009 on problems in modern scientific research. For example: 1 in 20 NIH-funded studies actually replicates; closed data and opacity; model selection for significance; multiple comparisons.. Here is the link to his talk: Everything Is Dangerous: A Controversy. There are a number of good examples in the talk and Young anticipates and is more intellectually coherent than the New Yorker article The Truth Wears Off if you were interested in that.
Idea: Generalize clinicaltrials.gov, where scientists register their hypotheses prior to carrying out their experiment. Why not do this for all hypothesis tests? Have a site where the hypotheses are logged and time stamped before researchers gather the data or carry out the actual hypothesis testing for the project. I’ve heard this idea mentioned occasionally and both Young and Lehrer mentions it as well.