ECONOMIC FALLACY #4: SCIENTISTS AREN’T NEUTRAL SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMICS ARE ADVO

ECONOMIC FALLACY #4: SCIENTISTS AREN’T NEUTRAL

SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMICS ARE ADVOCATES OF EXTREMES, THEY ARE NOT NEUTRAL JUDGES

No need to explain this. The process of competition between ideas in the pursuit of status in the scientific community tends, over time, to produce relatively truthful results. But scientists cannot make the claim for neutrality, or that as individuals they even follow the scientific method. It is the market for status signals that produces the outcome, not the ethics of any particular scientist. In fact, it certainly looks like most grad students are vastly incompetent, most professors are not much better, and only the top one percent of people in any discipline are even close to accurate about anything that they publish. And those that are, are accurate because they are synthesists, of everyone’s work not advocates of their own.

Science is not what scientists claim it to be. Economists are as bad or worse.