Re: List of Cranks here

From: Michael Varney (varney_at_collorado.edu)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:57:18 -0700

"Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:39202eF5t8gbsU1@individual.net...
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> "phoenix" <photonixx@go.com> wrote in message
> news:1110161535.199668.49470@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
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>> Wow. Very impressive!
>>
>> Uncle Al has complete listings of cranks indeed :)
>>
>> from http://www.edu-observatory.org/cranks.html
>>
>> "Some Registered Cranks from sci.physics
>>
>> Tom Bearden
>> Jos Boersema (josX)
>> Charles Cagle
>> Dr Conrad
>> Kent Deatherage (kdthrge)
>> James M. Driscoll, jr.
>> Ralph E. Frost
>> E.D.G.
>> JL Gaasenbeek
>> Greysky
>> Brad Guth
>> Donald L. Hamilton
>> James Harris
>> James Harris
>> Mike Helland
>> Dewey B. Larson
>> Laurent
>> Dr. Jai Maharaj aka Jay Stevens
>> Jack Martinelli
>> Robert E. McElwaine
>> Paul Marmet
>> Randell Mills
>> Louis Nielsen
>> Jeff O'Callaghan
>> Archimedes Plutonium
>> Tom Potter
>> David Rutherford
>> Jack Sarfatti
>> G S Sandhu
>> Ralph Sansbury
>> Louis Savain
>> John Sefton
>> Ken H. Seto
>> Smart1234 (S. Enterprize Company) (Jim Smith)
>> Space***
>> Stomar "Physics"
>> Paul Stowe
>> Thinh Tran
>> Tom Van Flandern
>> E R Vega
>> unifytruth
>>
>> Some Cranks or Trolls known by their postings to sci.physics
>>
>> 2N3819
>> Abhi
>> Aladar Stolmar
>> Androcles
>> Anna&Will
>> Hamid V. Ansari
>> Archimedes Plutonium
>> Ballisticus
>> Tom Bearden
>> CC (Charles Cagle)
>> Charles Cagle
>> Douglas Eagleson
>> eleaticus (Oren Webster)
>> Harold Ensle
>> Don Findlay
>> tj Frazir
>> FrediFizzx
>> Ralph E. Frost
>> GRAVITYMECHANIC
>> GRAVITYMECHANIC2
>> V.Gopal
>> Greenfield
>> Greysky
>> Greywolf42 (Barry Mingst)
>> HERetic3 - Ernest Wittke
>> Habshi
>> James Harris
>> Hayek
>> Mike Helland
>> Eugene Shubert (Perfectly Innocent)
>> Jean-Paul Turcaud
>> Don Jensen
>> John P David
>> johnn
>> josX
>> Kent Deatherage
>> IGNACIO LAMOTHE
>> Laurent
>> Dr. Jai Maharaj
>> Maleki
>> Robert E. McElwaine
>> Mitchell Raemsch
>> Louis Nielsen
>> Oriel36
>> Mathew Orman
>> Richard Perry (RP)
>> John C. Polasek
>> Y.Porat
>> Tom Potter
>> Hal Puthoff
>> Ralph Rabbidge
>> Jeff Relf
>> retic - Ernest Wittke
>> retiche - Ernest Wittke
>> reticher - Ernest Wittke
>> reticher1 - Ernest Wittke
>> David Rutherford
>> G S Sandhu
>> Ralph Sansbury
>> Jack Sarfatti
>> Louis Savain
>> John Schoenfeld
>> John Sefton
>> Ken H. Seto
>> Shrikantha S. Shastry
>> Donald G. Shead
>> Slavek
>> Smart1234 (S. Enterprize Company) (Jim Smith)
>> Rick Sobie
>> space***
>> Keith Stein
>> Paul Stelzner
>> Kurt Stocklmeir
>> Paul Stowe
>> Brian Stuckless
>> ThomasL283
>> David Thomson
>> Traveler (Louis Savain)
>> Dave Ulmer
>> unifytruth
>> Bill Vajk
>> eleaticus (Oren Webster)
>> Henry (Henri) Wilson
>> Ernest Wittke
>> Lester Zick
>>
>>
>> Now I wonder who among them have the most potentials. We can pick
>> up 5 of the most brilliant among them and hire them and make them
>> work together to produce the TOE. How about that. :)
>>
>> Now I have to review each of their work to choose the top 5.
>> Thanks for the list. Pls add more if you guys know more.
>>
>> Phoenix
>
> As can be seen from the definition given at the URL:
>
> "A crank (at least on the web and on USENET) is an individual
> that makes claims, or holds views, that are contradicted by
> the empirical data of observation and experiment."
>
> As a long time reader of the newsgroups,
> it seems to me that folks are listed on "crank lists" and such,
> because they have bested someone in a dichotomy,
> or because someone doesn't like their style, politics, religion,
> or their attitude toward their favorite physicist or theory.
>
> I suggest that it is incumbent upon the "attack pack" to
> justify their assertion that these folks
> "make claims, or hold views, that are contradicted by
> the empirical data of observation and experiment.",
>
> In other words,
> I assert that the "attack pack" are immature
> and driven by emotions and prejudices, rather than logic, and
> "make claims, or hold views, that are contradicted by
> the empirical data of observation."

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