I was a grad student at UCSD when Ed Vul published Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience [1], which stoked a severe backlash from the fMRI syndicate resulting in a title change to Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition [2]. There is a lot of interesting commentary around this article (e.g., “Voodoo” Science in Neuroimaging: How a Controversy Transformed into a Crisis [3]). To me it was fascinating to watch Vul (an incredibly rare talent, perhaps a genius), take on an entire field during his 1st year as assistant professor.

1. http://prefrontal.org/blog/2009/01/voodoo-correlations-in-so...

2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01...

3. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/1/15