...I wondered how many of these warning signs applied to Einstein's science, in his miraculous year just 100 years ago when he turned the scientific world upside down in a series of papers.. He was certainly working alone, outside the scientific establishment who he probably at least felt were conspiring against him by not giving him an academic post. The scientific effects were indeed at the very limit of detection, and he was proposing all kinds of new laws of nature. He did publish in a respected and presumably peer-reviewed journal. But would any journal have published such papers today, from an unknown patent clerk? I doubt it.
See the seven warning signs of crank science:-
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i21/21b02001.htm
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.