Who has the better crystal ball?

Economists or Ecologists? John Tierny examines the record.

I don’t find the result at all surprising. Being an Economist is something that can be fairly well defined, and one can picture a curriculum to learn how to do it. But, as my dad would say, “what the hell is an ‘Ecologist’? Any housewife can slap the title on herself and get air time on TV as if she were an expert.”

Tierny is a bit more fair, calling them “biologists who study the environment.” That’s at least a definition of something. But “ecologist” has always meant Birkenstocks and chanting to me.