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by snake_doc 1347 days ago
Argument:

> turning into an anti intellectual space where takes like "economics is not a science, it's a social science!" are the best we have to offer

Evidence: VictorPath's reply

> A bank taking an endowment awarding a prize and money to physicists, chemists and biologists, and ramming in to it a prize for economists saying nonsense the bankers like to hear, is the definition of anti-intellectual. The physicists, chemists and biologists are the intellectuals and scientists, the economists are frauds telling the bankers what they want to hear.

Q.E.D.