Perhaps a possible counterpoint is to argue that fancy stats knowledge is not really necessary for biologists. The reason they have to do it in their papers may

Perhaps a possible counterpoint is to argue that fancy stats knowledge is not really necessary for biologists. The reason they have to do it in their papers may be more due to bureaucracy / cargo cult / numerical theater etc. Look at the scatterplot etc. If the details of the fancy evaluation make or break the discovery, then it's probably a fluke anyway. Yeah, most papers are uninteresting and are purely done for funding and CV reasons. Those who pay expect papers, but aren't really sure why. Certainly not to read them themselves.