Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > there's an old essay by jeremy bernstein entitled something like > "scientific cranks: how to recognize them and what to do with them > until the doctor arrives" (can't find it online, dang), A quick google suggests that excerpts and a reference were posted on Usenet in 1985 (before the Great Renaming, in a mainly UUCP world). Google has an archive copy at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/net.physics/msg/b1c193d57a4d6b0a?dmode=source James. PS: The sigmonster's on form today... -- E-mail address: james | Users are not like normal particles; they wave when @westexe.demon.co.uk | you observe them. | -- Andrew Dalgleish