That said I fully agree with you that working at the CNRS is not a guarantee of an empirical mindset ;)
I disagree. You're not a crackpot just because you're wrong. You're a crackpot if
* you make logically inconsistent statements and adhere to them after careful correction * you use thought experiments that contradict real experiments * you use works of fiction as if they were facts
It's lucky you'll never find anything like that happening in economics or politics.
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