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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: "The Universe of MOTION" (crackpot index)
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- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 19:43:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct14.193139.8517@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- > "THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION", by Dewey B. Larson, 1984, North
- > Pacific Publishers, Portland, Oregon, 456 pages, indexed,
- > hardcover.
- >
- >Here we have about 92 capitalized words apart from book titles.
- >We have one claim to have revolutionized astronomy without good
- >evidence...
- >...for a whopping score of 475 on the crackpot index.
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- Sorry, I left out the 30 points for claiming to have revolutionized
- astronomy without good evidence, so the index is really 505!!
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- By the way, I welcome suggestions as to how to make this index more
- accurate. Of course, I'm not taking any of this too seriously, so
- please spare paroxysms of philosophical agony about the definition of
- a cracked pot. Also, I only welcome suggestions from those whose
- current crackpot index averages below 30 per post.
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