Reply #14: Ayn Rand was a truly scary person. She also wrote a lot of claptrap.

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For example, in one of her books (I think "Atlas Shrugged") she equated soybean production with wheat production. The villains were requiring that soybeans be grown instead of wheat and this was somehow bad. But in fact, soybeans and wheat are rotational crops, one would not necessarily substitute one for the other. In fact, in southern regions of the U.S., soybeans are grown after wheat in the same growing season (double cropped). A small detail, perhaps, but just one example of her sloppy research.