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Finally... Scientific publishing really needs a dramatic change. It is an awful, corrupted mess (source: I have written papers published in high impact factor journals)
The main probably with scientific publishing is that our threshold for statistical significance is way too low.
If we allow the threshold to sit at a 1 percent chance that results of the study were random chance, it means that 1 percent of all publications at that level of certainly are going o mislead the public if the media reports on them. And with the volume of research published every day, that adds up to a LOT of misinformation.
It's not even bad science, it's bad reporting and widespread scientific illiteracy. But neither of those are going away.
That's the exact problem OP is referring to.