The declining significance of significance

Siu Chow, in Statistical Significance: Rationale, Validity and Utility, has done a great service to those interested in reforming statistical practice. The indictment in the published literature of the continued reliance upon Null Hypothesis Testing (NHT) was so apparently overwhelming that one naturally wondered "Is there nothing to be said in its defence?" Worrying what an intelligent, well-informed defender of Fisherian statistics could say, we could not be sure that the case against NHT is as overwhelming as it seemed. Well, the defence is in, and the case against NHT is as overwhelming as it seemed.