Possibly *not* a neuro-specific problem:

"Despite recent advances in statistical methods, current neuroscience research is often conducted using a limited set of well-known statistical tools. Many models and tests assume that the observations are independent of one another. Failure to account for this dependency in the data often leads to an increased number of false positives, a major cause of the irreproducibility crisis"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732100845X