How bad data practice is leading to bad data research

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/02/19/how-bad-data-practice-is-leading-to-bad-research/#e76a25f1c354

A long but very well thought out article that encourages us to look beyond the ability to reuse data to whether the data is appropriate for  the questions being asked.

The very last paragraph sums it up:

Putting this all together, poor data practice, from honest statistical error to misunderstanding of data and methods, failure to normalize to malicious manipulation, coupled with copy-paste Google Scholar-ship, threatens to call into question many of the findings of data-driven research and is creating a dangerous landscape where a single honest spreadsheet error can reshape government policy, where "data" is conflated with "truth" and where dubious results are accepted as “fact” through the gilded veneer of data.