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You may wish to evaluate this fellow with the Crackpot Index ( http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html ). The in
by xirium 19y ago
You may wish to evaluate this fellow with the Crackpot Index ( http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html ). The index is like spamassassin for kooks.
- daniel-cussen 19y agoSomeday, I'd like to draft an article that maxes out this scale, and see if I can publish it in a straight-faced student newspaper, or pseudoscientific special-interests publication.
- dfranke 19y agoThere's one item on that list that I've always had a gripe with: > 10 points for offering prize money to anyone who proves and/or finds any flaws in your theory. This is legitimate, sometimes. See for example the prize offered for cryptanalysis of Salsa20. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20 Oh, and the Galileo thing ought to be worth at least 75 points.
- staticshock 19y agoWolfram offered prize money just recently to somebody to prove that some small automata he found was turing complete.
- dfranke 19y agoThat too. I didn't want to use that example because someone would have retorted that Wolfram wasn't really a false positive.
- stcredzero 19y agoI wonder how creationists score on this thing?