Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam
I would say that social science is an exception rather than the rule when it comes to reliance on p-values for their results. Many, or most scientific fields don't. For example DNA nanotechnology gets published in Nature a lot by creating concrete proof-of-concepts where the "result" is a picture on an atomic force microscope or something like that. Other examples abound, crystallography, microscopy. So saying that academic success is a crapshoot or a scam in general because of p-hacking is not correct. Within social science it is probably correct.