Today in our lab meeting we reviewed this terrific article on writing https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2515245918754485. Like the author, I grew up in science with Bem's advice on writing. In hindsight, some of his advice is shocking. He advises: "examine [your data] from every angle...
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..."Analyze the sexes separately. Make up new composite indexes. If a datum suggests a new hypothesis, try to find additional evidence for it elsewhere in the data. If you see dim traces of interesting patterns, try to reorganize the data to bring them into bolder relief."

"If there are participants you don’t like, or trials, observers, or interviewers who gave you anomalous results, drop them (temporarily). Go on a fishing expedition for something — anything — interesting. (Bem, 1987, p. 172; Bem, 2004, pp. 186–187)"

No wonder we ended up with a crisis. And that Bem's paper purporting to find evidence of ESP became one poster child for questionable research practices.

That said, his article on writing scientific articles became a classic because it does have a lot of good advice that still holds up on writing clearly. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.687.6970&rep=rep1&type=pdf