> Then, there are other fields, like economics and nutrition, where the basic fundamentals of the field are a pile of mud. That's incredibly dismissive of thes

> Then, there are other fields, like economics and nutrition, where the basic fundamentals of the field are a pile of mud. That's incredibly dismissive of these fields. I can't speak much to nutrition, but economics is not a "pile of mud", definitely not its fundamentals. Do you have any reason to think that it is other than (kind-of-literally) mud-slinging?