Specifics, please. What is being plead specially?

Also, regarding communication of and thinking about statistical results vis-a-vis "no effect" == "not significant", https://community.cochrane.org/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-files/Interpreting%20statistical%20significance.pdf

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.24092

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.962132/full

https://onlinestatbook.com/2/logic_of_hypothesis_testing/nonsignificant.html

and on and on and on. It's widely regarded as bad practice. (Notwithstanding that I already forgave the authors the cases where they made this type of error.)