Crackpot index
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John Baez's crackpot index ("a simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics") is a humorous system of evaluating scientific claims or individuals on a scale, wherein the larger the number, the greater the "crankiness." It was created by the mathematical physicist John Baez in 1992 and is hosted on his personal website at the University of California, Riverside.
A score on the index is decided by a series of 36 questions, each assigning a certain point value between 1 and 50 for every positive answer. (The entries are numbered 1 to 37, but the first query on the questionnaire merely assigns a -5 starting credit.)