No, it merits no study at all. On the Feynman-Hubbard scale I showed
earlier, Hoagland rates about a 0.3, even below Velikofsky. He doesn't
even pretend to have any scientific objectivity or make any attempt
at worthwhile scholarship. I'm almost embarrassed by the amount I
have read about him after convincing myself that he was a crackpot--I
should not have wasted any more brain cells on him at that point, but
there is something oddly fascinating about watching a fine bullshit
artist at work, and he does turn a nice phrase.
Now that I think about it, the scale would make an interesting essay.
I can imagine some standards for some points of the scale, but I'd
like to hear nominations for some others:
10.0 Richard Feynman, Niels Bohr: The standards.
9.0 Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking: No experiments, no 10.
8.0 ?
7.0 Carl Sagan: Some political influences, but does his homework
and maintains his integrity.
6.0 ?
5.0 Andrew Weil: One can be /too/ open-minded. A bit too
theatrical and rhetorical, too.
4.0 Hal Puthoff, Fleischman & Pons: Might be on to something,
but tend to announce results before verifying them.
3.0 ?
2.0 John Gray (Mars/Venus): Interesting ideas, thin on facts.
1.0 ?
0.0 L. Ron Hubbard, Creationists, Astrologers.
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