I see Dr. Oz promoting his latest super food on TV, even suggesting that it might cure my cancer. Clearly he's a quack, and there are other doctors on TV like him, therefore modern medicine is nonsense.
Now you might think you're not applying that faulty logic here, but you really are. I don't care what some paid pundit on TV was trying to sell you; use your head.
I precisely gave the example of Krugman, who won a important prize.
If they would give the Nobel of Medicine to Dr. Oz, without much general commotion from other doctors:
I would for sure consider Medicine a quack, or at least 90% of it, which is the one I use.
Now the questions is, are 90% of economists more close to Doctors or to astrologers?
If most of economist are quackers and I cannot distinguish them, and most of the quackers end up in Government positions and Universities: economy is quackery!
Now you might think you're not applying that faulty logic here, but you really are. I don't care what some paid pundit on TV was trying to sell you; use your head.