Statistics are certainly not categorically useless, but they are widely misunderstood and thus widely abused. In less political areas I have seen trained expert

Statistics are certainly not categorically useless, but they are widely misunderstood and thus widely abused. In less political areas I have seen trained experts make elementary mistakes (mistakes happen and it's fine). A lot (nearly all in my informal sampling) of journalists have zero understanding of statistical methods. The term statistical significance leads to knee jerk reactions advocating policy without understanding the basic procedure, or implications of hypothesis testing. As a numerate person I would personally appreciate it if all statistical claim had a link to a Jupyter Notebook and the associated data. (Though perhaps Observable would be the best choice here since it is run on the web).