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{{Short description|Method of rating scientific claims}}
'''The Crackpot Index''' is a number that rates scientific claims or the individuals that make them, in conjunction with a method for computing that number. It was proposed by [[John C. Baez]] in 1992, and updated in 1998.
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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html|title=Crackpot index|website=math.ucr.edu|access-date=2018-07-17}}</ref> An earlier version only had 17 questions with point values for each ranging from 1 to 40.<ref name=index1>{{Cite web|url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html|title=Crackpot index|date=1996-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961110050053/http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html|access-date=2018-07-17|archive-date=1996-11-10}}</ref>
Sample point assignments:<ref name=index1/>
*1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.
*5 points for each mention of "Einstien"{{sic}}, "Hawkins" or "Feynmann".
*10 points for offering prize money to anyone who proves and/or finds any flaws in your theory.
*20 points for every use of science fiction works or myths as if they were fact.
*40 points for comparing those who argue against your ideas to Nazis, stormtroopers, or brownshirts.
*50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions.
The ''[[New Scientist]]'' published a claim in 1992 that the creation of the index was "prompted by an especially striking
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