"Mark wrote a paper about this ten years later, after physicists had published thousands of bogus papers using bogus statistics."
Agreed, but to be fair a lot of non-physicists were also doing this. For example in their excellent review article http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062 Mark Newman, Aaron Clauset, and Cosma Shalizi show that a claimed power law in bytes received per http request was wrong. I'm not going to defend the sloppiness of physicists, but I would note that other fields don't fare as well in this either.
And I wish you or Mark had written that paper earlier too!
Agreed, but to be fair a lot of non-physicists were also doing this. For example in their excellent review article http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062 Mark Newman, Aaron Clauset, and Cosma Shalizi show that a claimed power law in bytes received per http request was wrong. I'm not going to defend the sloppiness of physicists, but I would note that other fields don't fare as well in this either.
And I wish you or Mark had written that paper earlier too!