Tag: Crackpottery

• Please Don’t Be a Crackpot

  I would say many if not most physics professors and researchers are the occasional recipients of unsolicited email messages, letters, pamphlets, or (in extreme cases) books outlining brand-new “theories”. I’ve collected a fair number of these over the years, and many of my colleagues confess that they’ve done the same. They vary a lot in…

  Matthew R. Francis

  April 16, 2011

  Absurdity, Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Pseudoscience

  Crackpottery, Pseudoscience