{"id":3477,"date":"2013-04-18T14:59:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2013-04-18T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:59:33","slug":"crackpot-science-at-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/04\/18\/crackpot-science-at-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackpot science at conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencegeekgirl.com\/files\/2008\/07\/641px-mad_scientist_transparent_backgroundsvg.png\" alt=\"mad\" width=\"125\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<p> There is an interesting article on the BBC website about crackpots at scientific conferences. The likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewgelman.com\/2007\/05\/22\/rejecting_a_pap\/\" title=\"rejecting papers\" target=\"_blank\">Bayard Peakes<\/a> are mentioned, as is the interesting case of Prof Schwartz who won a Nobel prize.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I have fortunately, not seen many crackpots at conferences that I have attended, but I have seem some&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Follow the link below to read more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-22171039\" title=\"bbc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Crackpot&#8217; science and hidden genius at physics meeting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; Follow the link &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/04\/18\/crackpot-science-at-conferences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crackpot science at conferences<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}