In Physics, Telling Cranks from Experts Ain’t Easy

All science writers, especially those of us who cover particle physics and other fields that purport to reveal ultimate reality, hear from cranks. Pre-email, I got envelopes stuffed with manuscripts, sometimes hundreds of pages long, from people unaffiliated with any research institution known to me.

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In Physics, Telling Cranks from Experts Ain’t Easy