Unless the gods have condemned you to repeat the same experiment for all eternity, unbiasedness, although theoretically expedient, should not be of much intrinsic interest: an estimate close to the truth for the data at hand should always be preferable to one that would merely get things right on average over an infinite sequence of data replicates.
— Simon Wood, Core Statistics, p. 28

Data say nothing at all; they are just bits in a medium or numbers in tables that sit there. If you hear them say something, seek professional help. In other words, for me the claim that data say something without a prior is akin to saying a stack of lumber is a house.
— Sander Greenland, https://tinyurl.com/285yz5s6