In 2010 there was an enemy plaguing ethical science across the world. That enemy was not correcting for multiple comparisons [when running statistical analyses on fMRI and other experiments]. This is the story of Craig M Bennet and how he and his team fought bad science using an fMRI and one dead Atlantic salmon.

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MRI and fMRI theory: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.nec.2010.11.001, https://imotions.com/blog/eeg-vs-mri-vs-fmri-differences/

Dangers of MRI: https://youtu.be/plvIEf7JsKo

Craig M Bennett's website: http://prefrontal.org/blog/about/

Bennett et al. "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple  Comparisons Correction" Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results,  2010.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobel-prize-in-neuroscience-the-dead-salmon-study/