can we name one mainstream journalist, or any policy makers that know anything about reproducibility - or, more honestly, the appalling lack thereof - or "p-values are questionable at best"?

There's been books, such as "how to lie with statistics" that should be mandatory reading, at least on entry to adulthood. I am one of maybe 3 people i know personally that knows how to actually parse a scientific paper, so when someone starts throwing a half dozen studies at me to back up their point, i can usually - on the scale of quarter hours - nitpick their understanding of the sources they used.

This doesn't win anyone friends, and something i've said for nearly 3 decades: Religion and science like to point fingers, but religion seems more likely to bend and change than science. Every time i mention this or an analogue i'm shouted at that it's "actually the opposite".

Shut up already, it's science. The science is in. This is science!