From Jason Brennan.
Certain Austrian economists, take note. You ain’t gonna win in economics by doing philosophy of economics. It’s not because the world’s unfair, but because it’s fair.
Read the whole post. I think that it is fair to offer methodological criticisms of specific papers and even of entire lines of research. But….well, what Jason Brennan said.
Reminds me of http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelligence/
and the title of this blog: take your opponents view as charitably as you can, improve them, and only then refute them, a.k.a. DH7
http://lesswrong.com/lw/85h/better_disagreement/