I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do.

Fifteen years of this and the function column is the only one that changed anything for me. Also, one page of history, printed, handed over at the sta…

Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.

Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.