As they say, sounds good, doesn't work. You can tell the genuinely curious sort from true cranks at a glance, and this article is about the latter. Every academ

As they say, sounds good, doesn't work. You can tell the genuinely curious sort from true cranks at a glance, and this article is about the latter. Every academic has interacted with far too many true cranks. I always try to give rebuttals that are accessible, explaining in plain English what is going wrong and giving resources for follow-up learning. It doesn't work -- you get "that's cute, you still believe in textbooks, when I've proven them all wrong."