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Can't trust doctors because one time a doctor made a mistake! Flawless logic!

• TT3351 6y ago
  I hope we can both agree the standards of measurement for doctors and economists are not exactly comparable, given that one is just "is the patient better" and the other can be judged in any way imaginable. Is the economist macro, micro, do their solutions add to income inequality, or reduce it? The field of economics is clearly much more mercenary than the field of medicine.
• disown 6y ago
  One time... Okay. Also, my dig wasn't at economists as individuals, but the pseudoscience called economics as a whole. There is a difference between a "mistake" like oops gave you the wrong medicine by accident and a pseudoscience like chinese medicine. And the internet prediction, asian financial crisis, housing bubble, etc aren't "mistakes"? It's just shows "serious economists" are just charlatans. The priests of modern era.
  • 6510 6y ago
    You are being to harsh on chinese medicine. I like the way Richard Wollf put it: There is a reason economics and business school are separate buildings.