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).
I wish the frequentist were a straw man, but they do do stuff nearly that preposterous in the real world. (ESP tests spring to mind.)
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).