Notice of the demise of the P value might or might not be premature, but I would respectfully query the justification for 800 signatories on the P-value death warrant (V. Amrhein et al. Nature 567, 305–307; 2019).

Iconic dichotomies are here to stay. And we have access to the electoral process (whereby the winner has more than 50% of the vote) and jurisprudence (whereby 51% certainty is the criterion for approving a scientific expert opinion), as well as to “the quick and the dead” (excluding Schrödinger’s cat).

The burden of ratifying the conclusions of a paper should continue to fall on the reader’s perspicacity — caveat lector — as further informed by your Editorial (Nature 567, 283; 2019).