I've been increasingly skeptical of Lifeboat Foundation, and have been meaning to write this up. Otto matches a number of items on the usual crank checklist, and his co-blogger Matt Funk matches even more. (Funk's writings are amazingly cranky; he doesn't mind posting rejections from ArXiv or including crank letters he's sent to prime ministers or Warren Buffet or Paul Allen, IIRC.) And then there's this stuff...