Scott Burns spilled the beans re what is going on in his column from the summer of 2005 in which he said that the reason why we rarely hear the findings of "The New School of SWR Analysis (I am the leader of The New School, and Burns' column was written at my urging) is that "it is information most people don't want to hear."
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gw posted a fine analysis that accurately describes kooks. Rob fits nearly every category . . .
Martin Gardner published a book entitled "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science", and dealt with everything from flying saucer nuts to Scientology and chiropractic. The nugget of the book is a list of five characteristic common to the kooks:
1. The pseudo-scientist considers himself a genius.
2. He regards other researchers as stupid, dishonest or both.
3. He believes there is a campaign against his ideas, a campaign compared with the persecution of Galileo or Pasteur.
4. Instead of side-stepping the mainstream the pseudo-scientist attacks it head-on: The most revered scientist is Einstein so Gardner writes that Einstein is the most likely establishment figure to be attacked.
5. He coins neologisms.
Rob, does it ever bother you in the slightest when people like Gardner - who don't know you exist - paint such an accurate portrait of you when they're describing general properties of kooks?
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