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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> While I'm very confident at this point that he is a crank, in the same
> category as circle-squarers, cold fusion proponents, pi-is-a-rational-
> number theorists, perpetual motion machine inventors, evolution or AGW
> Denialists[1], and other such obsessive examples of Dunning-Kruger, I'm
> not *totally* confident that he is a crank. Maybe he'll prove me wrong
> and actually learn something. Who knows, maybe *I'll* learn something!

I would compare him more closely to the "Einstein was wrong" armchair
physics revisionists, myself.