"Could someone help me out why this Middlebrow Dismissive Comment has been voted up?" Because is it a view obviously shared by a lot of the smart people in HN.

"Could someone help me out why this Middlebrow Dismissive Comment has been voted up?" Because is it a view obviously shared by a lot of the smart people in HN. "It contains no information, takes no position, and merely lobs cynical derision at everyone." It contains information: That people in the economics field had been corrupted by politics and financial interest, witch is absolutely true. Money mainly from financial elites goes to fund elite Universities in the US, and so most Ph. D need to think in a certain way for getting their position, the people that control central banks need to lie and deceive every single day, and even the Nobel price of Economics is a farce, created by central banks in order to influence people into believing their propaganda economics is scientific. Look at the "memorial" in the name. It is not a real Nobel price as so many real scientist Nobel price winners have complained about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi... I know quite a few good economists, but none of them are in great positions of power. If they are they act like really stupid ones(because they have to, if they know something is going to lose value they can't talk about it), so people that believe in them and lose most of their savings are angry at them, what is completely understandable.