ARE THERE LMITS TO HACKERY?

I didn't like how some conservative academic scientists tried to make Global Warming seem unsupported by evidence and now that I've read more reactions to the crap Niall Ferguson wrote in Newsweek, I agree with Brad DeLong that a strong response is called for:

Now comes Ferguson to say that he put the $1.2 trillion number in the second sentence in the quote to make his readers believe something that was false--to keep them from knowing that the actual net budgetary effect of the ACA is to reduce the deficit by $134 billion and not increase it by $1.2 trillion.

And his only excuse--now, it's not an excuse for the lie, it's a "I can lie cleverly" boast--is: "I very deliberately said 'the insurance coverage provisions of the ACA', not 'the ACA'".

Fire his ass.

Fire his ass from Newsweek, and the Daily Beast.

Convene a committee at Harvard to impose proper sanctions on this degree of intellectual dishonesty.[1]

There is a limit, somewhere. And Ferguson has gone beyond it.