Statistical Fasification

When I read the collection of papers in the 2014 p-value/AIC forum in Ecology, the short comment by Burnham and Anderson stood out as the most ridiculous one.  Not only their use of 20th- versus 21st-century statistics is absurd (what about Bayesian, 17th-century statistics?), their use of the falsification principle to claim that hypothesis testing is bogus seems odd.  They claimed that because null hypothesis testing cannot test or falsify the alternative hypothesis, hypothesis testing "seems almost a scandal." In August 2016, I read this post by Mayo, which addressed the scandal part of Burnham and Anderson.  She said: "I am (almost) scandalized by this easily falsifiable allegation!"