If you assume there's an FDA that makes yes/no decision about which drugs to approve and you hate the p values that they use currently, what do you think should be the alternative statistical FDA standard?
Clearly pre-committed methodology and explicitly stated priors. Double blinds whenever possible. Bayesian model analysis. Posterior distributions, not conclusions.
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