Keyns a bright and impish, but necessarily bad, small boy ?

"No real mathematician, and least of all Laplace, has ever claimed the presence of symmetry as being general in the case of the Bernoullian. Those who have fallen into that error are economists and statisticians who like Mr. Keynes are ignorant of the true assumptions underlying Bernulli's and Laplace's demonstrations.

...How this charming and naive statement reminds one of the playful sophistries of a bright and impish, but necessarily bad, small boy, trying to offer some excuse and explanation for his mischievous pranks, while he at the same time is wholly unmindful of the fact that his explanations and excuses are the most damning evidence of his own guilt.

Here we have Mr. Keynes, a successful writer of economic subjects, posing as a critic of such intellectual giants in the realm of mathematical science as Bernolli, Laplace and Poisson (which of course presupposes that he must have read very carefully the various writings of the old masters); who calmly and in the most innocent manners admits that of the 'laborious" mathematics involved in the question he is only acquainted with a rather clumsy demonstration published in 1896. "

Who wrote this attack on Keyns in the early 1900? I know, do you know?

Anyway little is new under the sun, many economists and a series of other practitioners in various fields and even statisticians teaching probability theory still have little or no clue about the depth of probability theory and the dangerous limitations of todays probability theory. From their ignorance some simply blow up billions of dollars, others blow up people.

What a world! What a circus!