When Scientists Attack (... Megan McArdle)

I so love it when scientists take the time and effort to unleash the full power of their arsenal in the service of taking snippy dilettantes down a few pegs. I know Sully and Gherald will be hurt that this guy trained his sights on their BFF, Megan McArdle, but - well - the full post is just too delicious:

Megan McArdle in fact knows very little — not nothing, but not much either — of the formal apparatus of modern economic thought, nor of the rich bodies of content knowledge real economists have developed on a number of important questions, including, most important for the present discussion, medical economics and political economy...

I don’t read McArdle much because I know she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, and the glibness of her ignorance and the infantile quality of her ideology (that brand of libertarianism present in populations that include my nine-year-old and that can be summed up “you can’t tell me what to do”) piss me off. Why read annoying, uninformed –if glibly written — dreck?

Read the whole post, you'll be glad you did.