Reply #1: Mystical bullshit gives way to science [View All]

[izquierdista]

Just as alchemy was replaced by chemistry and astrology was replaced by astronomy, the Chicago School of Milton Friedman crank-yanking will one day be forgotten and replaced by real economics of the kind Krugman and Stiglitz write about. Over the course of history, the writers whose ideas don't work are forgotten and the scientists who have discovered what works and is true are memorialized. People now learn Newton's laws in physics classes, and if Aristotle is ever mentioned, it is to say that he was wrong.

Maybe newspapers can move the horoscope column to the financial pages and console the superstitious that they will receive a tax cut when Mars is trine Uranus.