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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. The method, proposed semi-seriously by mathematical physicist [[John Baez]] in 1992, computes an index by responses to a list of 36 questions, each positive response contributing a point value ranging from 1 to 50. The computation is initialized with a value of −5.

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==External links==

* [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html ''The Crackpot Index'']. by [[John Baez]].

* [http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/crackpot.htm truncated version, Skeptics Society] by [[Michael Shermer]]

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