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Penderecki cranks up 19 th -century Baroque-style rhetoric into something both stentorian and shrill.
On the contrary--accepting papers without peer review is an abdication of scholarly responsibility under the best of circumstances and a poor idea for an association of evolutionary psychologists, whose discipline is notorious for attracting cranks.
David Denby argued in a New Yorker article earlier this year that they face a choice of being either hucksters or cranks.
When you consider how large a role economics plays in our national debate--and how much of the public discussion of economics is dominated by cranks and poseurs--seeing a serious economist like Barro get offered what is still, by private sector standards, a fairly modest paycheck doesn't seem particularly out of line.
Over the years, their lobbies have been effective at working with local cranks to regulate the minutiae of the wine business.