  We present STAR: a novel system aimed at solving the complex issue of
"p-hacking" and false discoveries in scientific studies. STAR provides a
concrete way for ensuring the application of false discovery control procedures
in hypothesis testing, using mathematically provable guarantees, with the goal
of reducing the risk of data dredging. STAR generates an efficiently auditable
certificate which attests to the validity of each statistical test performed on
a dataset. STAR achieves this by using several cryptographic techniques which
are combined specifically for this purpose. Under-the-hood, STAR uses a
decentralized set of authorities (e.g., research institutions), secure
computation techniques, and an append-only ledger which together enable
auditing of scientific claims by 3rd parties and matches real world trust
assumptions. We implement and evaluate a construction of STAR using the
Microsoft SEAL encryption library and SPDZ multi-party computation protocol.
Our experimental evaluation demonstrates the practicality of STAR in multiple
real world scenarios as a system for certifying scientific discoveries in a
tamper-proof way.
