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I would say that among all math-oriented courses, statistics courses are the worst-taught. Part of the reason is that the field has never been able to agree upon a single philosophical underpinning, and so modern courses are often a hodge podge of techniques without enough discussion of basic conceptual issues.

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I partially agree, but I don't think this is a problem of statistics.

If you were following statistics thoroughly, you would ideally set out your justified hypothesis before starting any research, and conclude whether your hypothesis was true or false.

The problem is that researchers generally refuse to do this - if they know to do this - because the hope is to be rewarded for finding some novel and unanticipated result that changes the field. This leads to p-hacking and other techniques which immediately invalidate any statistics that are used, anyway.

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