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by lisper 1011 days ago
> p=0.05 is a filter for "worth trying to replicate"

Yes, I think that is an excellent way to put it.

> The crisis in science is largely that people confuse "publishable" with "probably true".

I would put it slightly differently: people conflate "published in a top-tier peer-reviewed journal" with "true beyond reasonable dispute". They also conflate "not published in a top-tier peer-reviewed journal" with "almost certainly false."

But I think we're in substantial agreement here.