[In] economics... you can disguise charlatanism under the weight of equations and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled e… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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[In] economics... you can disguise charlatanism under the weight of equations and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled experiment. Now the spirit of such methods, called scientism by its detractors, continued into the discipline of finance as a few technicians thought their mathematical knowledge could lead them to understand markets. The practice of financial engineering came along with massive doses of pseudoscience. (page 115)