No. I'm one of the signatories, and an epidemiologist. First, the authors are well-known in the area. Sander Greenland is a major figure in epidemiology method

No. I'm one of the signatories, and an epidemiologist. First, the authors are well-known in the area. Sander Greenland is a major figure in epidemiology methods, etc. Second, there's been a push there, historically, to get rid of p-values because the field is primarily more focused on effect estimation, rather than pure hypothesis testing, so p-values are particularly poorly suited.