Furthermore, human science will never fully comprehend nature in real time. Neoliberals have assumed the equivalent stance hostile to intellectuals dating back to Hayek's attack in 1949, and no one gets more aggrieved about the lack of deference shown by the intelligentsia than your median neoliberal. Bashing pointy-headed elites lends them a certain populist caché; and it plays to an incipient fondness among the uneducated for the fuzzy conviction that wishing can make anything so.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 927