'Nobody wants to get mired in a long debate about possible confounding variables and statistical power in every paper they publish.' This is literally every pa

'Nobody wants to get mired in a long debate about possible confounding variables and statistical power in every paper they publish.' This is literally every paper I publish. Also, tightening the p-value criterion has problems of its own - as mentioned, it boosts the false negative rate, which is not a consequence free act. In the work I do, it's also a largely arbitrary threshold I can meet if I give the computer enough time.