This time Andrew Gelman–one of my favourite bloggers, otherwise– is too pessimistic, exaggerates a lot, not to mention that he misinterprets the essence of Robert Hanson’s post , which he takes as starting point of his entry… In my opinion, the gist of Hanson’s is something completely different, aka ‘negative’ public incentives social scientists might often face (think, eg: Truman searching for one-armed economists that could never give him the ‘on the one hand…but on the other hand’)– that other scientists do not typically have to deal with– which could alter the true ‘scientific’ message etc.
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