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#1  Postby Spearthrower » Jan 15, 2012 11:16 pm

In light of some recent posts, I think it is worth reproducing this scoring metric for crackpottery here.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

I am sure many people have seen it before.

Obviously, this metric is weighted towards Physics.

There is another based on this but more concerned with Evolutionary theory here:

http://talkrational.org/showthread.php?t=16684
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#2  Postby bObbyPhyschO » Jan 15, 2012 11:55 pm

That's really good and I've not actually seen this before. Perhaps there should be one for alternative medicine.
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#3  Postby Paul G » Jan 22, 2012 11:03 pm

Instead of replying to creationists we should just give them a rating and leave it at that.
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#4  Postby Dogmatic Pyrrhonist » Jan 23, 2012 7:47 am

Paul G wrote:Instead of replying to creationists we should just give them a rating and leave it at that.

And then spend the rest of the post arguing about the score, then averaging it out, to the complete bafflement of the visiting creotard.
That has merit. :naughty2: :thumbup:
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#5  Postby Lizard_King » Jan 23, 2012 8:09 am

:this: very much. Would make things a lot easier. ;)
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#6  Postby Spearthrower » Jan 23, 2012 10:40 am

I have a feeling the mods will look none too kindly on that - more's the pity.
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#7  Postby Spearthrower » Jan 24, 2012 7:10 pm

This struck me as a plausible measuring tool:

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#8  Postby Sovereign » Jan 31, 2012 11:32 pm

Spearthrower wrote:This struck me as a plausible measuring tool:

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#9  Postby pfrankinstein » Feb 01, 2012 12:10 am

Quality thread Spearthrower, good work.
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#10  Postby The Doctor » Mar 11, 2012 7:17 pm

Wow! I think this guy would win the most crackpot points:
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#11  Postby NLMTECH » Mar 26, 2012 9:01 pm

XD, Even that guy sounds SANE when paralleled with the likes of a certain John Searl ! The meister of crackpotology, who, to this day, manages to convince the dumb and unwitting into the belief that energy can be extracted from a bunch of spinning magnets !
(NTM the antigravity B.S. which accompanies the 'team Searl' nonsense) !
I reckon Searl is the fairy on the top of the tree !
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#12  Postby Regina » Mar 26, 2012 9:07 pm

5 points for each mention of "Einstien", "Hawkins" or "Feynmann".


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#13  Postby xrayzed » May 01, 2012 1:59 am

Regina wrote:
5 points for each mention of "Einstien", "Hawkins" or "Feynmann".


:lol:

Even better in combination with #20: "20 points for emailing me and complaining about the crackpot index. (E.g., saying that it "suppresses original thinkers" or saying that I misspelled "Einstein" in item 8.)"
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