Knight, and possibly Hayek prior to the early 1950s, had decided that "science" was having a nefarious intellectual influence that threatened market liberties. But Wallis and Friedman and their Chicago followers soon came to realize that it was a deadly error to set one's political commitments as pitted against science in the era of the Atomic Bomb. Their embrace of statistics and their evocations of the mystique of science thus became one of the major neoliberal calling cards of the Chicago School.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 781