Yes, these p-values are irrelevant in every way. What matters is that people figured out a way to get reproducible results. If I can be confident that an "effec

Yes, these p-values are irrelevant in every way. What matters is that people figured out a way to get reproducible results. If I can be confident that an "effect" is smaller than x, that is good information. A bunch of studies with slightly different methods with small p-values in opposite directions don't give any confidence at all.