Krugman on the persistent credibility of the persistently wrong.

Link. I think it’s because they’re selling entertainment, not knowledge. So they continue to deliver value.

"John Hinderaker .. why don’t people like Hinderaker who have been wrong about everything for years and years … ever reconsider? … the Dunning-Kruger effect: the truly incompetent are too incompetent to realize that they’re incompetent…"