Did Dr. Sowell use, “even,” when he meant, “especially?”
They really need to cite Mellon. He was an amazing economist. :(
I assume you are referring to this paragraph?
The results show how unreliable peer consensus can be, even when it is a peer consensus of highly intellectual people, if those people share a very similar vision of the world and treat its conclusions as axioms rather than as hypotheses that need to be checked against facts.
Can't either one be used?