从别的地方转载的一个帖子（更正了原帖部分不准确的翻译），很有意思，大家来做做测试。

看到这个加州大学河岸分校数学系的教授的主页上，有这么一个科学妄想家测试索引，得分越高越接近“科学妄想家”

http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

The Crackpot Index

John Baez

1. 起始分5分

2. 你被绝大多数人认为是错误的观点，每个+1分

3. 如果你的理论中有凭空想出来的观点，每个＋2分

4. 如果你的理论中有逻辑上不自恰的论点，每个＋2分

5. 如果你的某个论点被人极其认真的纠正，但你还是坚信这个观点的话，每一个＋5分

6. 有和广为人知的物理实验结果违背的假想实验，每个+5分

7. 如果你把一个词全部都用大写（我们可以理解为把一句话黑体显示），每个加＋5分（键盘出问题的除外）

8. 每次提到爱因斯坦、霍金、或者是费曼（"Einstien", "Hawkins" or "Feynmann"）＋5分

9. 声称（在没有足够好的证据的前提下）量子力学是从根本上的一种误导，每次＋10分

10. 用指出自己上过学来证明自己不是神智不清，每次＋10分

11. 在开始谈论自己的理论之前先要介绍自己已经在这个理论上研究了多少年的，＋10分

12. 如果你把你的理论寄给不认识的人，却同时告诉他们不要把这个理论给别人传阅，以免被人剽窃的，＋10分

13. 如果你出钱悬赏，征求有人能证明你的理论是错的（或者发现你的理论的瑕疵的），+10分

14. 如果你的理论里有你自己发明的术语，但却没有严格的定义它们，每一个+10分

15. 说类似“我的数学不好，但我的理论概念上是正确的，我所要的有人能够把它用公式表达出来”的话，每一次＋10分

16. 如果你对某个现有比较完善的理论的观点是“只不过是个理论”，好像一个理论“只是个理论”这一点有什么问题似的，+10分

17. 如果你对认为现有的某个理论的疑问在于，虽然它能够精确预言实验现象，但没有告诉你为什么，或是没有说明具体“机理／机制”，＋10分

18. 把自己和爱因斯坦作比较，或者（在没有足够好的证据的前提下）声称相对论是一种误导，每一次＋10分

19. 如果你声称你的研究结果是“划时代（标志性）的变革”，＋10分

20. 如果你抱怨本帖，说它“打压有创意的思考者”，或者说我第8项里面把爱因斯坦的名字拼写错了，+20分

21. 如果你暗示自己应该获得诺贝尔奖，＋20分

22. 把自己和牛顿作比较，或者（在没有足够好的证据的前提下）声称经典力学是一种误导，每一次＋10分

23. 把科幻小说或者神话故事当作事实来引用，每一次＋20分

24. 为了证明自己现在的理论而贬低或嘲笑自己以前的理论，＋20分

25. 如果你把你的理论中的一些东西用你自己的名字来命名（比如你的名字是Evan，而你把你的理论中的场方程叫做Evan场方程），＋20分

26. 如果你说自己的理论多么伟大，却从来不具体的解释原因，＋20

27. 使用类似“死板的反变革主义”这样的词汇（攻击别人），每一次＋20分

28. 使用类似“自封的正统卫道士”这样的词汇（攻击别人），每次＋20分

29. 暗示某个名人“秘密的”相信某个你公开支持的理论（比如从费曼物理学讲义上看到，费曼说自己是个“反相者”），＋30分

30. 暗示爱因斯坦晚年未尽的探索正是朝着你现在的理论的方向＋30分

31.（在没有好的证据的前提下）声称你的理论是由某个地外文明发展起来的，＋30分

32. 如果你觉得你的研究曾经被推迟了，而其原因是因为你被关进收容所、或是某个精神病医生想夺走你的理论，＋30分

33. 如果你把反对你的人比喻成类似“纳粹、党卫军、暴君”之类的人，＋40分

34. 如果你认为“科学上已有的定论”正试图搞“阴谋”来阻止你的工作被承认，＋40分

35. 如果你把自己比作伽里略，而且暗示你受到了类似当年那种迫害，+40分

36. 如果你声称当你的理论最终被承认时，现在的科学界会因此而觉得惭愧的话，＋40分（如果你还想象现在讽刺你理论的科学家们到时候会如何被迫认错的话，再＋30分）

37. 如果你声称自己的理论是革命性的，但又不能给出坚实的、而且实验可验证的预言的话，＋50分

1.  A -5 point starting credit.

2. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.

3. 2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous.

4. 3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent.

5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful correction.

6. 5 points for using a thought experiment that contradicts the results of a widely accepted real experiment.

7. 5 points for each word in all capital letters (except for those with defective keyboards).

8. 5 points for each mention of "Einstien", "Hawkins" or "Feynmann".

9. 10 points for each claim that quantum mechanics is fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).

10. 10 points for pointing out that you have gone to school, as if this were evidence of sanity.

11. 10 points for beginning the description of your theory by saying how long you have been working on it. (10 more for emphasizing that you worked on your own.)

12. 10 points for mailing your theory to someone you don't know personally and asking them not to tell anyone else about it, for fear that your ideas will be stolen.

13. 10 points for offering prize money to anyone who proves and/or finds any flaws in your theory.

14. 10 points for each new term you invent and use without properly defining it.

15. 10 points for each statement along the lines of "I'm not good at math, but my theory is conceptually right, so all I need is for someone to express it in terms of equations".

16. 10 points for arguing that a current well-established theory is "only a theory", as if this were somehow a point against it.

17. 10 points for arguing that while a current well-established theory predicts phenomena correctly, it doesn't explain "why" they occur, or fails to provide a "mechanism".

18. 10 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to Einstein, or claim that special or general relativity are fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).

19. 10 points for claiming that your work is on the cutting edge of a "paradigm shift".

20. 20 points for emailing me and complaining about the crackpot index. (E.g., saying that it "suppresses original thinkers" or saying that I misspelled "Einstein" in item 8.)

21. 20 points for suggesting that you deserve a Nobel prize.

22. 20 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to Newton or claim that classical mechanics is fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).

23. 20 points for every use of science fiction works or myths as if they were fact.

24. 20 points for defending yourself by bringing up (real or imagined) ridicule accorded to your past theories.

25. 20 points for naming something after yourself. (E.g., talking about the "The Evans Field Equation" when your name happens to be Evans.)

26. 20 points for talking about how great your theory is, but never actually explaining it.

27. 20 points for each use of the phrase "hidebound reactionary".

28. 20 points for each use of the phrase "self-appointed defender of the orthodoxy".

29. 30 points for suggesting that a famous figure secretly disbelieved in a theory which he or she publicly supported. (E.g., that Feynman was a closet opponent of special relativity, as deduced by reading between the lines in his freshman physics textbooks.)

30. 30 points for suggesting that Einstein, in his later years, was groping his way towards the ideas you now advocate.

31. 30 points for claiming that your theories were developed by an extraterrestrial civilization (without good evidence).

32. 30 points for allusions to a delay in your work while you spent time in an asylum, or references to the psychiatrist who tried to talk you out of your theory.

33. 40 points for comparing those who argue against your ideas to Nazis, stormtroopers, or brownshirts.

34. 40 points for claiming that the "scientific establishment" is engaged in a "conspiracy" to prevent your work from gaining its well-deserved fame, or suchlike.

35. 40 points for comparing yourself to Galileo, suggesting that a modern-day Inquisition is hard at work on your case, and so on.

36. 40 points for claiming that when your theory is finally appreciated, present-day science will be seen for the sham it truly is. (30 more points for fantasizing about show trials in which scientists who mocked your theories will be forced to recant.)

37. 50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions.