That post links to this one, in which Scott Aaronson describes how to recognize mathematical crankery: https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.ti

That post links to this one, in which Scott Aaronson describes how to recognize mathematical crankery: https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecube.com/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecu... That in turn links to Sean Carroll's guide for how not to be dismissed as a scientiic crank: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2007/06/19/the-alternative-science-respectability-checklist/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2007/06/19/the-alt... I was expecting at least one of those to mention the line "that's what they want you to think", but it does not. I guess I'm exposed to a lot of economic and political science crankery. I'd enjoy similar compendia of pitfalls of that kind of crank.