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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Brad DeLong Is Still an Ethics-Free Partisan Hack

DeLong has long had a habit of removing posts from his blog that point out factual errors in his posts.

Economists Steve Horwitz, and seveal others, note that now DeLong is simply editing out those parts of comments that show his errors. He's also posting replies to those truncated comments trying to rebut "the commentor's" arguments.

Are any of DeLong's colleagues embarrassed by his behavior? I haven't heard any speak out. I guess this is how intellectual discourse is conducted in the nation's economics departments.

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