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Though the index was not proposed as a serious method, it nevertheless has become popular in discussions of whether a claim or an individual is [[crank (person)|crank]]y, particularly in [[physics]]. {{Fact|date=April 2007}}

The index contains the following line which could be considered a joke at the expense of string theorists.

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50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions.

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==See also==