Reminds me of this blog post by Felix Salmon http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/04/01/economics-without-mathematics/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salm

Reminds me of this blog post by Felix Salmon http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/04/01/economics-without-mathematics/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/04/01/economics-w... where he concedes that most economic journalists, himself included, don't really read economic papers because they can't be bothered to follow the math. That means they can get snowed by unwarranted assertions in the more plainly written introduction and conclusion and cite the paper/study as saying something it doesn't.