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There is an interesting article on the BBC website about crackpots at scientific conferences. The likes of Bayard Peakes are mentioned, as is the interesting case of Prof Schwartz who won a Nobel prize. |
I have fortunately, not seen many crackpots at conferences that I have attended, but I have seem some…
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‘Crackpot’ science and hidden genius at physics meeting
In Biology many of my colleagues and people I’ve met along away think that the work of Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe a little crackpotty. They have published on topics like ‘the plague falling from space and not transmitted by flea/rat.’ which is a little out there. But I think in time the panspermia idea (DNA throughout space) may catch on.