RobinZ comments on Open Thread: November 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinZ 03 November 2009 05:39:26PM *  2 points [-]

Are you ... taking pride in sounding like a crackpot? That doesn't seem like a very good plan for figuring out what is really going on in the world. That's why we denounce crackpottish proclamations like "this theory is largely rejected/ignored by both the particle and string mainstream [because it is] very very threatening to their funding and careers" - because these sorts of statements are easy arguments to wield against people with the temerity to dispute your favored idea.

I haven't read the paper you linked here, but the titular "ECE" - "Einstein Cartan Evans" - returns no hits in a quick Scitation search. If you ask me, it seems premature to treat the results with anything like the confidence you attribute to it.