Krugman Bashing has started in the form of Anonymous posts

[TheCoxwain]

Samples from Mr.Anonymous .. couched in a way raise doubts ..esp second post



While I cannot judge Krugman's work, what is clear is how much the Nobel Committee hates the Bush administration. Krugman's, Gore's, and Pinter's awards, the recent comments about US authors being too insular, and the dramatic non-win for Robert Gallo in physiology this year can _all_ be taken as comments on US policy. <snip>

Posted by: Anonymous


I admire Krugman's ideas and analysis of our current economic situation, but some economists may feel that the work for which he won the prize was not necessarily substantial enough for the Nobel and suspect that the Committee is making a political statement. It will be interesting to see what the academic reaction is, and whether Krugman was one of the guys expected to eventually win a Nobel prize.

In the meantime the UK newspapers are all reporting that the Nobel laureate supports the UK solution to the fiscal crisis--thus lending it (thank goodness) even more credibility.

Posted by: Anonymous

source http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=10&year=2008&base_name=paul_krugman

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

1. All that from somebody who "can't judge Krugman's work."

[xxqqqzme]

2. 'some economists'????

was this written by fixed news?

[TheCoxwain]

7. Also notice the hypothetical contruct of the sentence ...

Some economists MAY blah blah


NICE!!!!

[unpossibles]

11. right. "some" ....

but they can't name one.

[codjh9]

3. Bullshit as we all know - Krugman is great. n/t

[mohc]

4. I heard Famous Person

also was not to fond of Krugman's work.

[PBS Poll-435]

10. Famous Person is erratic and unstable

You just never know what he/she/it is going to say!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. He Won The John Bates Clark Medal In 1991

The biennial John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge".<1> Named after the American Neoclassical economist John Bates Clark (1847-1938), it is considered one of the two most prestigious awards in the field of economics, along with the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Following an average wait of 22 years, approximately 40% of past Medal winners have gone on to win the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics, presented annually since 1969 at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm.

[Democrats_win]

6. Sour grapes over a Nobel prize? What a low-life!

[IndianaGreen]

8. Speaking of the plagiarist Dr. Robert Gallo, and his bogus HIV research

in which he clearly took credit for research done by the Pasteur Institute. Gallo's dishonest role was portrayed by Alan Alda in the film "And the Band Played On," about the onset of the AIDS crisis.

Archive report: Science subverted in AIDS dispute
In Gallo case, truth termed a casualty

By John Crewdson | Tribune reporter

This story was first published in the Tribune on Jan. 1, 1995.

In March 1987, President Ronald Reagan and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac appeared in the East Room of the White House to announce that their governments had settled the question of whether scientists at the Pasteur Institute of Paris or the National Institutes of Health had invented the blood test for the virus known as HIV.

The answer, it appeared, was both. The names of the Pasteur scientists were added to the American patent on the AIDS test, and the formal agreement that formed the core of the settlement declared that both countries' scientists had independently "succeeded in isolating a human retrovirus which proved to be the causative agent of AIDS." Just eight days later, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico, a scientist specializing in the genetic analysis of viruses sent senior officials at the National Institutes of Health a confidential memo warning that "a double fraud" had been perpetrated on the scientific community.

The Los Alamos scientist, Gerald Myers, had compared the genetic codes of the French and American AIDS viruses and determined they were not independent discoveries but had undoubtedly come from the same patient.

Moreover, Myers said, the American virus and its progeny could not have been isolated from a pool of blood samples from several AIDS patients, as the NIH publicly had maintained.

"I suggest that we have paid for this deception in more than the usual ways," Myers wrote. "Scientific fraudulence always costs humanity . . . but here we have been additionally misdirected with regard to the extent of variation of the virus, which we can ill afford ... "

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-100608-hiv-discovery-nobel-prizeoct07,0,7068937.story

[central scrutinizer]

9. If Henry Kissinger can win the Nobel Peace Prize

At least Krugman actually IS an economist. Unlike Kissinger who would never be confused with somebody who wanted peace.