> We have far more damaging evidence on Keynes, for example, than we do of Hayek yet we do
not resort to those sort of guilt by association claims.
  
  
Damaging evidence about what?  
  
  
>Yet when defenders of Hayek perk up, they are often dismissed as ideological crazies.  
>  
  
I doubt that folk think of Bruce as an ideological crazy. I certainly do not.   
  
& I'm sure you'd be the first to cede that ideological crazies do number in the camp of
people who claim they agree with Hayek.
  
Andrew Farrant