I had the same theory. It fits with history and human nature.

BTW I chose not to go to grad school for (among other reasons) the same one as the other commenter: "most studies were poorly-designed or otherwise deeply flawed, data was cherry-picked to give desired results, work was compromised by unreasonable deadlines and funder expectations, data was tortured to fit the theoretical flavor-of-the-month, etc.... the root of the problem isn't that everyone is deliberately cheating, exactly. In my experience, it's more like everyone is playing the same corrupted game and producing compromised products, and not thinking about what that leads to in the aggregate."