Forum:Do we have an article on the following... (if this is the wrong place to post such a query, please correct me, I'm a newcomer).

Again, if this is the wrong place to post a question like this, direct me to the right place. I'm new here. But I was just wondering if we had an article on people that are sort of half-geniuses, and half-cranks? Half right, and half wrong? If not, then I'm thinking they could be called "hanks" (half-cranks) or something. Two examples of such people that spring to mind include Ray Kurzweil (invented a fantastic device for helping the blind to read, but is also the world's no. 1 advocate of immortality/transhumanist/singularity fantasies and understands bugger all about biology and neurology) and Mary Daly (wrote at length about the misogyny inherent in Roman Catholicism and organized religion in general, but also subscribed to lesbian separatist utopia fantasies and had an oftentimes extremely pretentious, incomprehensible writing style). Speaking of Kurzweil, his page quote, I think sums up this category of person perfectly: "It's as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid."