In his new, evidence-filled book on urban crime, Thomas Abt inverts some conventional wisdom: Focus on crime itself, not (your theory of) “root causes”; crime causes poverty, not just vice-versa; don’t equate gun control with crime control.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/harvard-kennedy-school-researchers-new-book-offers-a-prescription-for-ending-urban-violence/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%2520Gazette%2520062619%2520%281%29 …
It's easy to dismantle the conventional wisdom when the conventional wisdom is just so stupid - the key is to ride the line like Pinker and never actually reject the core premises that lead to stupid conventional wisdom.