Re: Has "cinquirer" returned?

From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 01/22/05


Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:08:29 GMT


"Jim Black" <ghytrfvbnmju7654@mail.com> wrote in message news:1106392281.375724.233760@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Some of you may recall a Pranic Healing quack who went by the username
> "cinquirer." Recently, he was doing some posting, mostly on
> alt.sci.physics.new-theories, but hitting this group as well, under the
> e-mail addresses consciousnessxresearch@yahoo.com and
> cons_cie@yahoo.com. On December 29, he made what he claimed would be
> his final posting, titled "Bohm Theories Explained Qi."
>
> Recently, there have been a number of threads about David Thomson, and
> a few other crackpots, like Seto and Porat, started by people who claim
> to be taking the middle ground between crankdom and real science,
> trying to find out if there's some possibility their ideas have merit.
> Oddly enough, most of these posters have IP addresses originating in
> the Philippines, the home country of "cinquirer," are using Google
> groups to post, have very little posting history, and have Yahoo e-mail
> addresses.
>
> The usernames and e-mail addresses in question are:
>
> caltechxtremephysics@yahoo.com (caltechdude)
> emwizsoon@yahoo.com (Emwizsoon)
> gambitavilab@yahoo.com (Gambit)
> landlematt@yahoo.com (Landle)
> quantummechanicswhat@yahoo.com (Lawrence)
> sciatomsphysics@yahoo.com (Bert, Santana, Tom, Jerry)
>
> While this probably doesn't prove anything, it does look very
> suspicious. And as if this wasn't enough, under the e-mail address
> with lots of usernames was posted the thread "Thesis and a Nobel
> Prize," which inquired about something "El Hemetis" said in a thread
> over on alt.sci.physics.new-theories. The thread, "HI, (thesis
> subject)," didn't appear to get much attention there, but there were
> responses from "EL," an "ISU WINS," and "cinquirer" himself, under his
> consciousnessxresearch@yahoo.com e-mail address.

Remember "El Hemetis" and his "Lady Sanity"?
    http://users.pandora.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/LadySanity.html

>
> In any case, keep in mind that most intelligent, sane people can easily
> distinguish the garbage that infests these newsgroups from reality.
> Anyone who claims that we should give serious consideration to the
> crackpots' work could easily be a troll.

Good detective work :-)

Dirk Vdm



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