You're right that I didn't check the power of their test, and I'm also not a huge fan of p-value tests. If you want to say that their methodology sucked, go ahe

You're right that I didn't check the power of their test, and I'm also not a huge fan of p-value tests. If you want to say that their methodology sucked, go ahead. Skimming their R script, they do appear to have skipped the power analysis. But that's not what I'm criticizing them for. Statistics is hard and bad stats are forgiveable. I'm criticizing them for ignoring their own numbers when they came out insufficiently clickbaity - that's deliberate dishonesty.