crackpot index

[marnix]

stumbled across this site, which lets you calculate how much a forum poster verges towards crackpottery

i especially like the following one :

#36 : 40 points for claiming that when your theory is finally appreciated, present-day science will be seen for the sham it truly is. (30 more points for fantasizing about show trials in which scientists who mocked your theories will be forced to recant.)

[spuriousmonkey]

I like this one:

10 points for pointing out that you have gone to school, as if this were evidence of sanity.

[marnix]

on the other hand, #13 is full of pitfalls

10 points for offering prize money to anyone who proves and/or finds any flaws in your theory

because we all know that this type of person is totally impervious to that sort of approach + will never cough up, as they always will worm their way out of any type of proof

[Gamling]

29.  30 points for suggesting that a famous figure secretly disbelieved in a theory which he or she publicly supported. (E.g., that Feynman was a closet opponent of special relativity, as deduced by reading between the lines in his freshman physics textbooks.)

i agree with that'n!