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Could you give an example of one that's particularly egregious? I've seen a couple that seemed questionable (based on my gut feeling, not any specific knowledge of the subject), but none that seemed as absurd as the crystal folks.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzfgq1zv8jg

Randy Powell on Vortex Math - "The most advanced mathematics ever known to mankind."

yeah.


I am speechless... What appals me the most though is the applause and cheers at the end, even one person -- that I could see -- standing up while clapping. As far as I could tell this talk was generated by a bot(something like this: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/) or something and nobody seemed to notice anything wrong. Just a stream of jargon strung together in what seems like english.


Yikes, this is just awful. I keep expecting James Randi to enter stage right and explain this was all some kind of test for the audience.


Another gem from this video, not that there is a shortage of them - at 3:55 - "It makes us into a vortex machine, sucks things in at the top and shoots them out of the bottom"


How many points for this in the Crackpot index?http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html




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