Josh Barro: Niall Ferguson Uses Twitter Science To Prove He Is Better Than Everyone: Noted

Josh Barro: Niall Ferguson Uses Twitter Science To Prove He Is Better Than Everyone:

In the process of criticizing me, Ferguson writes: "If you are defending someone against a charge of incivility…" I'm going to stop him right there. I'm not defending anybody against a charge of incivility…. The reason Ferguson wants to talk about civility is that he can't talk about not being full of crap. Ferguson… write[s] popular articles that contain misleading and false claims… causes readers to come away with a worse understanding of the economy than they entered with. He is changing the world for the worse. My contention is not that we haven't been uncivil to Ferguson. We definitely have. My contention is that he deserves it.