Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
This is not the medium by which what you want from them is addressed. The same is true for Feynman and Tyson. The equivalence is not false.

They are not citing data that only supports them. I'm not sure why you think they are, perhaps because you disagree with them so you assume they must be cherry picking. But the points they make come from analysis of all the available data. The stuff Friedman said is super consensus among the experts, and the stuff Sowell said is a theory that he thinks the data (all the data) support.
Economics is Philosophy.

Pick up any real science and see the difference.