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by mikeash 3500 days ago
You got as much rigor as you gave. Disproving every wacky position with a careful analysis is impossible, nobody has that much time.
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Indeed, there are an almost infinite number of crank theories because they don't require logic, evidence, or proof - just belief. One crank can churn out a hundred nonsense theories in the time it takes someone to validate one scientific idea or mathematical proof.

This has a corollary in the startup world: everyone has an idea, what matters is execution.