Posted: Oct 28, 2011 6:36 pm
Paul wrote:Brain man wrote:thats not how it works in professional circles. people are hurried and have to make quick decisions. They google somebody see this, and may switch off right away, as this forum "looks" respectable. Google does not even aggregate the links from here. If i search on some theorists it comes up with pages of peer reviewed works interspersed with a link to each of one page of one of these threads, with Pseudoscience as the most prominent word.
If they're hurried and they're making snap decisions based on this site "looking respectable" like you suggest then they're not good researchers. I've seen plenty of "respectable looking" websites and forums that a little further digging shows them to be full of bullshit (such as homoeopathy sites).
If I google "James Maxlow", top link is his own website and this place doesn't appear in the first few pages.
If I google "James Maxlow pseudoscience" then we appear top of the list with the EE thread.
I think you're right, this doesn't belong in Pseudoscience.
It belongs in Conspiracy Theories.
James has already employed an SEO and marketing expert to deal with this. Thats why the results are clean, and has pictures, subdomains, lots of personal profiles etc coming up in google to push the general junk down. Not all theorists have resources for that.
I cant tell you what puts a thread from here to the top of google. I wouldnt pass that information around here. Suffice to say there is not a thread on Ratskep about james maxlow.