On the contrary , to me it's good to see a relaxed p-value cutoff being reported, as opposed to self censorship for being barely on the wrong side of the comple

On the contrary , to me it's good to see a relaxed p-value cutoff being reported, as opposed to self censorship for being barely on the wrong side of the completely arbitrary 5% cutoff. Occuring in the 8% tail is still unlikely to occur by chance, enough to call for replication with a bigger sample.