Re: Cargo Cult Science
"They underlying root cause is that statistics is not taught to biology/med science majors properly around the world."
In my day, if we had a statistical problem we went and asked a statistician. I recall one such visit where a very simple test gave a 1 in N chance of a random pattern match. When we left he was still shaking his head and muttering, about N "That's a very big number".
In this case it's a matter of not so much understanding the statistics but the code of a function. It's not clear from the report whether or not the function was open source or, even if it was, whether users would necessarily know it was incorporated into proprietary software.