I beg to differ (not sure if you actually read the Efron talk I just posted). I get the thrust of the Less Wrong article, though I think that frankly his language and vitriol is direly misplaced. He's railing against some class of Frequentists who attack Bayesians. This is sort of a Fox News tactic; pick someone, in this case, a commenter on a blog, and generalize their comment to the entire population. It's fairly unstatistical, if you ask me. I don't get why anyone would do this. A good Frequentist is not a lost idiot, nor does she rail against Bayesians. In fact, a good Frequentist understands the beauty of Bayesian methods, too. I'd even wager that a good Bayesian understands why Frequentist methods have dominated the 20th century.

I'm attempting to realize that rare event in these vitriolic philosophical academic debates - add a bit of middle-groundness. In this case, the middle ground of Empirical Bayes has proven to be very, very useful in large-scale simultaneous inference problems. It's proof that there IS such thing as convergence in this debate. Taking the shrill tone the author takes as a signal of how little regard the two sides have for each other, it's obvious that we need some convergence.