• The Crackpot Index is a number that rates scientific claims or the individuals that make them, in conjunction with a method for computing that number....
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  • thinking, such as the crackpot index. Crackpot, North Yorkshire, a village in the United Kingdom and home of Crackpot Cave Crackpot Hall, a landmark ruin...
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    Additionally, Baez is known on the World Wide Web as the author of the crackpot index. John C. Baez attended Princeton University where he graduated with...
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  • "Towards a universal crackpot standard". New Scientist. No. 2758. April 28, 2010. p. 64. Retrieved April 6, 2012. "Crackpot index". math.ucr.edu. "The...
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  • following. Baez is also known on the World Wide Web as the author of the crackpot index, a humorous numerical method for rating scientific claims and the individuals...
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    alternative medicine that are criticized on the website. Consumer protection Crackpot index Evidence-based medicine Hoax Medical ethics Pathological science Scientific...
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  • Pseudophilosophy Pseudoscience Chaos magic Conspiracy theory Counterknowledge Crackpot index Crank (person) Fallacy Fringe science Fringe theory Irrelevant conclusion...
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    Communication Community Education Funding Policy Pseudoscience Scientist Science fiction Science portal Outline Category Article indexes Glossaries v t e...
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  • others "regard him as a cheap huckster or a likable-but-occasionally-creepy crackpot." In 2003, Variety opined that "[n]either the scandal nor Larson ever hit...
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  • "psychoceramics", the supposed study of "cracked pots" (a play on words of the term crackpot). The joke originated when Classics professor John William Spaeth, Jr....
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    of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman season 1 episode 3 as a crackpot claiming to have been abducted by Superman and taken aboard his spaceship...
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    J. (2007). The Big Con: How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-68540-0. "Rand Paul's...
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    versatility; he could play everything from grubby young guttersnipes to old crackpot scientists. He hit upon an "old man" characterization in his short comedies...
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  • This is an index of Microsoft Windows games. This list has been split into multiple pages. Please use the Table of Contents to browse it. 0–9 A B C D...
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    from the original on 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2008-12-07. Cox, Don. "Hero or crackpot, man a star of Internet gossip". Reno Gazette-Journal. "On Mike Wallace...
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  • absolutely not a con artist – but she knew that some people looked on her as a crackpot, so she kind of fed into that notion and let you go either way with it...
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  • films (Hollywood Steps Out); and cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny clones (The Crackpot Quail). Avery's tenure at the Schlesinger studio ended in late 1941 when...
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    ("...with outstretched fingers, we touched the face of God") in "The Crackpots and These Women", the fifth episode from Season 1 of The West Wing. A...
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  • California Fruits, Flakes & Nuts: True Tales of California Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps. Fresno, California: Craven Street Books. pp. 158–160. ISBN 978-1-61035-194-2...
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    United States, Sage Publications Incorporated. Jonathan Chait, The Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America, 2008, Mariner Books (Re-print edition)...
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    Potomac River from Maryland.) Floyd concluded that the letter writer was a crackpot, and disregarded it. He later said that "a scheme of such wickedness and...
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    2014, it wrote that the campaign, "[o]nce derided as the scheming of crackpots", was "turning mainstream" in many Israelis' eyes. In 2016, Israeli President...
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    original. McAdams, John. "L. Fletcher Prouty: Fearless Truth Teller, or Crackpot?" John McAdams' The Kennedy Assassination website. "Coup d'Etat in America:...
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  • Richard (September 8, 2011). Flimflam Artists: True Tales of Cults, Crackpots, Cranks, Cretins, Crooks, Creeps, Con Artists, and Charlatans. Xlibris...
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  • the original on December 5, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2017. "Episode Index". The West Wing Weekly. Retrieved February 1, 2025. "The West Wing Thing"...
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    Myths and Mysteries as an "outrageous and intolerable book" filled with crackpot claims and "Danikenesque delusions". Winona Lake: A Memory and A Vision...
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    Mosby's inappropriate attire, the start of a campaign to minimize him as a "crackpot." Moreover, the new State Department investigator was General Julius Stahel...
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  • evaluation, saying it "does nothing more than to lend credibility to these crackpots". The article also reports that many non-students have moved to the city...
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  • merchandise. Waters, John (2003). "John Waters' Tour of L.A. (1985)". Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters. Simon & Schuster. p. 11. ISBN 0-7432-4627-6...
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  • and AIDS at the VirusMyth website "Phillip Johnson: From Crackpot to Dangerously Insane Crackpot" by Kevin T. Keith at the Lean Left blog Critiques of Phillip...
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