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> Oh please. You can do plenty of psuedoscience and superstition with good old frequentist statistics.

That's not really the point. The article is simply saying that Bayesian methods are not a silver bullet; it's not saying that other methods of statistics are free from problems.



> The article is simply saying that Bayesian methods are not a silver bullet

But it's not really saying it in passing; the headline is taken from that paragraph. At that point it almost feels like a takedown of a strawman Bayesian.




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