Yes, a semantic disagreement: I don’t think of spurious findings as nonsense. Nonsense has negative connotations that I feel contributes to the real problem which is the competitive nature of research and misconceptions about “error.” Too often I hear people elevate the researcher in a sort of “great man” theory of scientific progress. Too rarely do I hear praise for those doing boring replication studies and the like. I worry that younger people hear someone published “nonsense” and think of it as an indication of the quality of the researcher. All of this leads to more p hacking, more avoidance of replication, and more inefficiency in the scientific process. The economic incentives are such that universities compete for big name researchers, those who don’t publish nonsense. That is the problem IMO.
