This does not surprise me at all given the extreme fail by the Freakanomics guys when it came to climate change. They seem to lose all sense of proper scholarship when their collective world views are too severely challenged, and it takes such mental work for those sorts of folks to understand our part of the fan community.

Well. At least my social status as a rebellious bohemian is thus maintained by fannishness, so I can skip consuming the vast amounts of booze and/or drugs that would only make me bilious these days.