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I was reading this interview Of Erich Lehmann yesterday: “A Conversation with Erich L. Lehmann”
Lehmann: …I read over and over again that hypothesis testing is dead as a door nail, that nobody does hypothesis testing. I talk to Julie and she says that in the behaviorial sciences, hypothesis testing is what they do the most. All my statistical life, I have been interested in three different types of things: testing, point estimation, and confidence-interval estimation. There is not a year that somebody doesn’t tell me that two of them are total nonsense and only the third one makes sense. But which one they pick changes from year to year. [Laughs] (p.151)…..
DeGroot: …It has always amazed me about statistics that we argue among ourselves about which of our basic techniques are of practical value. It seems to me that in other areas one can argue about whether a methodology is going to prove to be useful, but people would agree whether a technique is useful in practice. But in statistics, as you say, some people believe that confidence intervals are the only procedures that make any sense on practical grounds, and others think they have no practical value whatsoever. I find it kind of spooky to be in such a field.
Lehmann: After a while you get used to it. If somebody attacks one of these, I just know that next year I’m going to get one who will be on the other side. (pp.151-2)
Emphasis is mine.
I’m reminded of this post.
Morris H. DeGroot, Statistical Science, 1986, Vol. 1, No.2, 243-258
Error Statistics Philosophy 
I see the stores are already showing Halloween items. Isn’t that a bit early?
Looking at statistics from the outside, I’ve often felt as DeGroot: for a field to go around discrediting one or another method as they do is odd and spooky. Of course now methods favored or disfavored by different Bayesian sects would be added to the list of methods being sold, or sold off. There seems to me to be much too much self-interested pumping (or dumping) of methods in statistics. You’ve got your book, your program, maybe even a patent, so it’s in your interest to heap scorn on rivals. Oh, I know, statistical practitioners would never do this. But what really bothers me are the bad and even terrible arguments given especially against tests, the misunderstandings of key concepts by “reformers”, and the groupthink and divisiveness promoted by members of one or another statistical cult of personality. Perhaps it’s just a modern continuation of K. Pearson, Fisher,Neyman, DeFinetti and the rest of them.