Originally Posted By: ImagingGeek
from. Lorenz, in particular, was critical.

We even name the Lorentz transformation after him! Hardly a secret :P

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ultimate scientific BS detector - legitimate hypotheses and theories do not form ex nihilo, but instead are built

Except everyone with a radical new idea thinks they're so radical nobody else even came close. They just forget that if somebody else had tried it and failed, we'd never know because they won't be in the history books or text books or even journals. The internet is a different story tho. I wonder how long it'll take for all the crank ideas to be exhausted and searchable for future cranks to check their work against.