Having been both a scientist and, now, a product manager for a medical device, I think science would benefit from the work around verification vs. validation:

Having been both a scientist and, now, a product manager for a medical device, I think science would benefit from the work around verification vs. validation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verification_and_validation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verification_and_validation A p-value is a verification tool and nothing more, and yet scientists all too often take the "hunt for the p-value" as the only goal. Rather than fish through data for a p-value that ends up defining the scientific narrative in a paper, p-values need to be integrated into a much larger validation process driven by pre-defined scientific goals. It's no wonder that so many results are found to be specious given today's scientific culture.