Some frequentists (not they) do those things. Most others are busy with good work, e.g. discovering things like the Higgs. (Concerning ESP, this also springs to mind.)
I think they discovered the Higgs in spite of being frequentists (or, more likely, of paying lip service to frequentism), not thanks to being frequentists.
I agree, but notice that now you’re no longer talking about the practitioners, you’re talking about the doctrine. The existence of some ghost-hunting frequentists doesn’t prevent the frequentist in the comic from being a straw man of actual frequentists (because they’re highly atypical; cf. the existence of ghost-hunting Bayesians).
Some frequentists (not they) do those things. Most others are busy with good work, e.g. discovering things like the Higgs. (Concerning ESP, this also springs to mind.)
I think they discovered the Higgs in spite of being frequentists (or, more likely, of paying lip service to frequentism), not thanks to being frequentists.
I agree, but notice that now you’re no longer talking about the practitioners, you’re talking about the doctrine. The existence of some ghost-hunting frequentists doesn’t prevent the frequentist in the comic from being a straw man of actual frequentists (because they’re highly atypical; cf. the existence of ghost-hunting Bayesians).