Willing to bet you're an academic.

Hiding the fact that their textual claims don't match their data using various tricks is bog standard academic dishonesty, you see it all the time in anything social or related to public health. It's an endemic problem.

Trying to blame prior generations for defining P thresholds that are "too attractive", or just doing what they were taught, instead of blaming the current authors for doing the wrong things is absurd. No textbook is telling these people to use MTurk or not to draw proper graphs!