Cranks on the Internet Usenet Kooks Some Registered Cranks from sci.physics Tom Bearden Jos Boersema (josX) Charles Cagle Dr Conrad Kent Deatherage (kdthrge) James M. Driscoll, jr. Ralph E. Frost E.D.G. JL Gaasenbeek Greysky Brad Guth Donald L. Hamilton James Harris James Harris Mike Helland Dewey B. Larson Laurent Dr. Jai Maharaj aka Jay Stevens Jack Martinelli Robert E. McElwaine Paul Marmet Randell Mills Louis Nielsen Jeff O'Callaghan Archimedes Plutonium Tom Potter David Rutherford Jack Sarfatti G S Sandhu Ralph Sansbury Louis Savain John Sefton Ken H. Seto Smart1234 (S. Enterprize Company) (Jim Smith) Spaceshit Stomar "Physics" Paul Stowe Thinh Tran Tom Van Flandern E R Vega unifytruth Some Cranks or Trolls known by their postings to sci.physics 2N3819 Abhi Aladar Stolmar Androcles Anna&Will Hamid V. Ansari Archimedes Plutonium Ballisticus Tom Bearden CC (Charles Cagle) Charles Cagle Douglas Eagleson eleaticus (Oren Webster) Harold Ensle Don Findlay tj Frazir FrediFizzx Ralph E. Frost GRAVITYMECHANIC GRAVITYMECHANIC2 V.Gopal Greenfield Greysky Greywolf42 (Barry Mingst) HERetic3 - Ernest Wittke Habshi James Harris Hayek Mike Helland Eugene Shubert (Perfectly Innocent) Jean-Paul Turcaud Don Jensen John P David johnn josX Kent Deatherage IGNACIO LAMOTHE Laurent Dr. Jai Maharaj Maleki Robert E. McElwaine Mitchell Raemsch (Nick) Louis Nielsen Oriel36 Mathew Orman John C. Polasek Y.Porat Tom Potter Hal Puthoff Ralph Rabbidge Jeff Relf retic - Ernest Wittke retiche - Ernest Wittke reticher - Ernest Wittke reticher1 - Ernest Wittke David Rutherford G S Sandhu Ralph Sansbury Jack Sarfatti Louis Savain John Schoenfeld John Sefton Ken H. Seto Shrikantha S. Shastry Donald G. Shead Slavek Smart1234 (S. Enterprize Company) (Jim Smith) Rick Sobie spaceshit Keith Stein Paul Stelzner Kurt Stocklmeir Paul Stowe Brian Stuckless ThomasL283 David Thomson Traveler (Louis Savain) Dave Ulmer unifytruth Bill Vajk eleaticus (Oren Webster) Henry (Henri) Wilson Ernest Wittke Lester Zick Usenet Kooks Internet Humour Immortal Fumbles A crank (at least on the web and on USENET) is an individual that makes claims, or holds views, that are contradicted by the empirical data of observation and experiment.