> 1. It's an economics paper. Not a field with a reputation for accurate predictions beyond the basics.
If your first reason for dismissing an economics paper is because you don't like economics, that's a bad start. Especially since the rest of your comment reviewing this economics paper consists of you doing economics. You're preemptively dismissing everything you yourself have to say.
I mean, if economists suck, then surely the economic theories of people who don't think economics is real suck more.
To me, your point reads very differently from their comment. A skeptic outlook informed by events and criticisms in the field, justified by a reference to those events, is very different from dismissing a field out of hand.
A charitable read of their comment interprets it as you do, but starting a criticism like this is not a good way to engage readers. I personally stopped reading reflexively and skipped to the replies to see if other people found anything worth engaging with, much like I do with clickbait titles.
Thing is, it's not my first rodeo with misleading research. How many papers does one have to read and walk away feeling short changed before you're allowed to generalize, in your view? 50? I've easily achieved that number across different fields (not exclusively economics).
If your first reason for dismissing an economics paper is because you don't like economics, that's a bad start. Especially since the rest of your comment reviewing this economics paper consists of you doing economics. You're preemptively dismissing everything you yourself have to say.
I mean, if economists suck, then surely the economic theories of people who don't think economics is real suck more.