This all makes sense to me, and I partially agree. However, people whose whole job revolves around "you must provide evidence of something that gets published

This all makes sense to me, and I partially agree. However, people whose whole job revolves around "you must provide evidence of something that gets published in a journal, on a regular basis, even if it is never of enough interest for anyone else to try to replicate it", with an extra helping of "if it's confirming people's biases enough to get you speaking gigs or a best-selling book, you get a pay raise", then you might over time start to attract a slightly different crowd.