There's every reason to believe this. The article makes it very clear that the problem is the need by journals, funding agencies and researchers to have a boile

There's every reason to believe this. The article makes it very clear that the problem is the need by journals, funding agencies and researchers to have a boilerplate value so they can categorize the results as "true" or "false". You can change the value or the phrasing, but without solving the problem of "laziness" you won't fix anything.