Had the practitioners of the dismal 'science' been exposed to anything else than the canonical writings of their own cabal, they would have reached a strikingly different conclusions. Thanks to taylorization, we may be getting smarter labor saving machinery, but dumber operators thereof (cf. Harry Braverman, _Labor and monopoly capital : the degradation of work in the twentieth century_). Instead of producing knowledge and critical thinking, educational institutions merely reproduce social stratification (Randall Collins, _The Credential society : an historical sociology of education and stratification_, Pierre Bourdieu, _Homo Academicus_).
Sometimes I wonder if these folks are really that intellectually challenged or merely act as mildly sadistics pests determined to annoy the Left.
wojtek