The progressive press continues to blame the US’ inferiority to third world economies on liberty; and many blame the economic downturn on deregulation. Scientific American blames what they are calling a stock market crash on math and physics PhDs, as if everybody gambling on derivatives was supposed to win. Granted, some of us did not need to consult a computer to find out if it would be to our benefit to live beyond our means. The Editors of SciAm, however, appear to assume that investors needed government to help them discern between overly optimistic software predictions and the improbability of spontaneous generation. In the context of institutionalized science, it is to be expected that, to some extent, job opportunities and security for some quants would depend on reading the auspices in the policy-makers’ favor. What is clear is that for the law of unintended consequences to continue to be verified, the studied opinions of conservative think tanks must continue to be ignored.