"Perhaps the author's and our time would have been better spent if he offered a coherent defense (maybe even using vaguely correct grammar) of these academic ec

"Perhaps the author's and our time would have been better spent if he offered a coherent defense (maybe even using vaguely correct grammar) of these academic economic hypothesis rather than a sweeping ad hominem attack." I disagree, because his post wasn't about macroeconomics per se, it was about a large number of otherwise rational people on geek sites espousing controversial opinions on a complicated subject without the proper education, with too much confidence. This post could have been about evolution too, and it still would have been valid. Just a lot more controversial, because NO ONE will admit that their opinion on evolution may be wrong.