tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post802575884173158703..comments2024-01-10T17:36:15.040-07:00Comments on The Lippard Blog: A measure for crackpotsLippardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16826768452963498005noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post-34362831496977233112008-10-13T05:57:00.000-07:002008-10-13T05:57:00.000-07:00That's one of the books I had in mind in the first...That's one of the books I had in mind in the first paragraph...Lippardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16826768452963498005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post-40533456998706914692008-10-12T21:11:00.000-07:002008-10-12T21:11:00.000-07:00We should apply this to the Matthew 10:10 crackpot...We should apply this to the Matthew 10:10 crackpottery!Michael Phoenixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12184777502486763445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post-1413764139504917532008-10-12T11:10:00.000-07:002008-10-12T11:10:00.000-07:00From Martin Gardner's description of the hermit sc...From Martin Gardner's description of the hermit scientist:<BR/><BR/><B>He considers himself a genius. <BR/>He regards his colleagues, without exception, as ignorant blockheads … <BR/><BR/>He believes himself unjustly persecuted and discriminated against. The recognized societies refuse to let him lecture. The journals reject his papers and either ignore his books or assign them to “enemies” for review. It is all part of a dastardly plot. It never occurs to the crank that this opposition may be due to error in his work … <BR/><BR/>He has strong compulsions to focus his attacks on the greatest scientists and the best-established theories. When Newton was the outstanding name in physics, eccentric works in that science were violently anti-Newton. Today, with Einstein the father symbolof authority, a crank theory of physics is likely to attack Einstein … <BR/><BR/>He often has a tendency to write in a complex jargon, in many<BR/>cases making use of terms and phrases he himself has coined.</B>Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.com