{"id":19447,"date":"2017-01-25T16:25:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19447"},"modified":"2017-01-25T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T16:25:42","slug":"economist-is-now-practicing-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19447","title":{"rendered":"Economist is now practicing medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/krugman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19448\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/krugman-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/krugman-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/krugman-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/krugman-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/krugman.jpg 1976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knock it off, Paul Krugman.<\/p>\n<p>I get that you&#8217;re a smart fellow, Nobel laureate and all.<\/p>\n<p>But your Nobel Prize is in <em>economics<\/em>, not medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Why, then, are you trying to diagnose a supposedly\u00a0&#8220;obvious&#8221; mental illness for the president of the United States?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paul-krugman-trump-mentally-ill-2017-1\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paul-krugman-trump-mentally-ill-2017-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Krugman leans left in his economic theory. He opposes Trump at every conceivable level. Heck, so do I. So do most of those Americans who voted in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>But for crying out loud, Professor Krugman. You need not fire off tweets alleging something about which you have no knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the president is acting kind of goofy. He campaigned as a serious goofball. I get all of that.<\/p>\n<p>No one, though, except a medical doctor is qualified to toss out assertions like the one Krugman has tossed. Not even if he is a smarty-pants economist.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knock it off, Paul Krugman. I get that you&#8217;re a smart fellow, Nobel laureate and all. But your Nobel Prize is in economics, not medicine. Why, then, are you trying to diagnose a supposedly\u00a0&#8220;obvious&#8221; mental illness for the president of the United States? http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paul-krugman-trump-mentally-ill-2017-1 Krugman leans left in his economic theory. He opposes Trump at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economist is now practicing medicine?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,14],"tags":[1424,6886,3326,3521],"class_list":["post-19447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-mental-illness","tag-nobel-prize","tag-paul-krugman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19449,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447\/revisions\/19449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}