By Guangyao Qin
Scientists heat cranks because cranks crash the work of popular science and are always make the mistakes in their theories, which are not even wrong. The discovery of the gravitational wave make some people be interested in science. It is a good thing, but some cranks, taking advantages of the public desires of science, to propaganda the new "science discovery", which can change the world and even get the nobel prize. People need to be award of this kind of "science".
But, why do scientists heat most of cranks?
The cranks's attractive theories of "science" crash the work of popular science that scientists have been worked for years to give the main public the right view of science. Science is prudent, logic, and objective. These characteristics make science can not develop as fast as cranks' most creative imaginations. Main public is easy to be attracted by these imaginative theories of cranks'. It has to be admired that the cranks's theories of "science" are more attractive than the theories of the real science. Sometimes, the public may be disappointed by the real science, but the level of the science has not highly developed, especially for the basic physics. Scientists do a lot of work on popular science in order to let people know what is the real view of the science. It is also a fight to the anti-intellectualism. Cranks have many different theories of science, but they always have the mistakes in their theories, which are not even wrong. Scientist heat these mistakes most.
Not even wrong
There are three types of the theories. One type of theories is right. For instant, the Newton's laws of motion. One type of theories is wrong. These two types are all good. Scientists like them, even they are wrong because both types of theories can be checked, anytime. Right is right. Wrong can be adjusted to be right. The third type of theories is not even wrong, which is people can not tell whether the theory is right or wrong. It is the worst situation of theories and even worse than "wrong". Some cranks' theories are always the third type of theories. That is why these theories are useless. Science is absented from the theories, which are not even wrong, and try to avid the third type of theories.Here is some example, which are not even wrong:
The picture: xkcd: Revolutionary
The title I wrote: Ont need gwnor. Please analysis the grammar and spelling.
I got a great theory. If I have enough support of money, I will get Nobel prize.
Please, be revered of science.
Thanks for reading.
Reference:
http://www.xkcd.com/675/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion
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