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Milton Friedman is well respected by many economists, why aren't there more Libertarians?

Libertarians love Friedman for his beliefs if liberty and freedom. I've seen even neoliberals and democrat economists claim that he was influential and intelligent. If they truly felt that way, why do they ignore most of his teachings? The only people that seem to follow his line of thinking are the austrians and they don't seem that well respected.
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Academic economics is mostly scientific. Politics is mostly unscientific. Friedman's academic contributions are valuable because of their scientific content, but his political "teachings" are based on personal attitudes, not scientific findings.