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    From the page: How do you diagnose crankery? The surest telltale is unfalsifiability. Cranks are often tireless researchers; but they only accumulate positive evidence. They cherry-pick mainstream sources for factoids that support their position and ignore everything else. The linguistic ones,... more

    Reviewed by Bunty Feb 12 2009, 10:46pm ( 12 reviews ) • zompist.com

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  • Rated by spencerriner on Jul 15, 10:38pm

    i just hate that he has an anti-libertarian page.

  • Rated by MrPopo on Jun 08, 11:52am

    Only a fool argues with a fool.

  • Rated by Metzker on Apr 27 2009, 2:01pm

    I'M ARGUING ON THE INTERNET

  • Rated by rolans on Mar 16 2009, 4:21pm

    Lol the few people who would listen to this are already trying to discuss intelligently. The rest are just trolling to start flame wars.

  • Rated by Bombulous on Feb 22 2009, 8:34pm

    a guide to how to lose the internet

  • Rated by Bunty on Feb 12 2009, 10:46pm

    From the page: How do you diagnose crankery? The surest telltale is unfalsifiability. Cranks are often tireless researchers; but they only accumulate positive evidence. They cherry-pick mainstream sources for factoids that support their position and ignore everything else. The linguistic ones, armed with dictionaries, amass mountains of 'evidence'. But they never contemplate a test that might reject their hypothesis. A skeptical professor I know has a simple test for people who want to argue with him: "What would it take to prove you wrong?" For a crank the answer is "Nothing could."

  • Rated by walknick on Jan 28 2009, 8:21pm

    Good insights into flame wars and aggressive non-listening. I also like how the author values his most vocal critics: energetic feedback.