Has anyone ever studied the strong correlation between
(1) Having crank theories about science, and
(2) Writing in lots of different fonts & colors at once?
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Involuntarily and on an anecdotal-but-at-significant-scale basis, yes.
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It might be interesting to understand more clearly why there are many physics cranks and no chemistry cranks. (I think it’s because physics gets interpreted as metaphysics and chemistry doesn’t. Due to historical confusions.)
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i have a similar question (and hypothesis) about the specific mathematical topics that draw cranks, especially cantor's diagonal argument
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people really have strong feelings about the reals being uncountable i've never quite understood it
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I guess it's not entirely far off from the Pythagoreans despising irrationality
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