No public institution or agency should be created without an expiration date. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.

Short stories are mostly read by people who want to write short stories.

It was confidently believed that the scientific successes of the industrial revolution could be carried through into the social sciences, particularly with such movements as Marxism. Pseudoscience came with a collection of idealistic nerds who tried to create a tailor-made society, the epitome of which is the central planner. Economics was the most likely candidate for such use of science; you can disguise charlatanism under the weight of equations, and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled experiment.