Frank J. Fleming in the NY Post: OK, Let's Try Real Science!

IMAO blogger and frequent PJ contributor Frank J. Fleming hits the NY Post today. Read the whole thing:

In science, when testing things on people, you always use a control group. If you have a drug you think will cut cholesterol, you give it to one set of test subjects. If everyone in the group that took the drug turns purple and starts choking but the control group is fine, we scientifically conclude there’s a problem with the drug.

We have an economy that’s turning purple and choking. Did the stimulus cause that? If we had a control group that looked fine, we’d know.

So what we need to do is isolate part of the country to be the control group. They’ll be free from new taxes, won’t take part in government programs and regulations and can have all the guns they want. In the rest of America, politicians can go crazy with every Keynesian idea, ban trans fats and salt and just generally control everything. Then we can compare the results of the two groups and finally have a scientific answer on what works.

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And having that answer, the politicians from the parts of the country that are proven failures will try to impose their failure on the successful parts!

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