Randomista is clearly not a neutral term, and I think constitutes a kind of name calling
What’s your basis for claiming that ‘randomista’ is a non-neutral term? That is not my impression. A popular book that presents a positive picture of the field is titled Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World. A recent article by one of the world’s most prestigious science journals uses the headline “‘Randomistas’ who used controlled trials to fight poverty win economics Nobel”, and includes the following line: “Kremer, Banerjee and Duflo are at the vanguard of the ‘randomista’ movement, which applies the methods of rigorous medical trials — in which large numbers of participants are randomized to receive either a particular intervention or a standard treatment, and followed over time — to social interventions such as improving education.” And Mark Ravallion, a leading authority on the economics of poverty, explicitly writes: “That term ‘randomistas’ is not pejorative.” (p. 2)
What’s your basis for claiming that ‘randomista’ is a non-neutral term? That is not my impression. A popular book that presents a positive picture of the field is titled Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World. A recent article by one of the world’s most prestigious science journals uses the headline “‘Randomistas’ who used controlled trials to fight poverty win economics Nobel”, and includes the following line: “Kremer, Banerjee and Duflo are at the vanguard of the ‘randomista’ movement, which applies the methods of rigorous medical trials — in which large numbers of participants are randomized to receive either a particular intervention or a standard treatment, and followed over time — to social interventions such as improving education.” And Mark Ravallion, a leading authority on the economics of poverty, explicitly writes: “That term ‘randomistas’ is not pejorative.” (p. 2)