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by lliiffee 3118 days ago
I'm sure they would! But there's a pretty strong argument it's a step in the right direction. Actually, this link makes a more modest proposal that papers should report likelihoods rather than p-values. This avoids reported results results depending on priors (which perhaps we don't trust authors to choose well), though a reader can easily impose themselves if they want to.

https://arbital.com/p/likelihoods_not_pvalues/

You still have the option to muck with things by choosing your hypothesis class in a bad way-- nothing can really replace publishing data!