It's such a common cluster of traits (and failure mode among people on the internet and homeless people I've met), it might be a particular mental state. Hasn't everyone had that feeling once that they suddenly understand everything and it's All Connected?
Here's a MetaFilter thread discussing how manic states can lead to this kind of feeling. It's pretty anecdotal though. Some actual research to what's going on with stereotypical crackpots would be interesting.
Psychoceramics? ... oh.
In a different forum I frequent ( The Ornery American ), a regular member there (LetterRip) has recently been making an extraordinary claim - a new theory of medicine he has devised that relates and can contribute in the cure of several neurological-related conditions.
I understand that the prior probabilities for him being a crank are much much higher than him being a new Louis Pasteur. Still I was wondering if there is anyone here with sufficient medical/medicinal knowledge that they can easily determine if there's something obviously ludicrous in LetterRip's theory, or even the opposite: if indeed there's something there that makes sense and is worth investigating.
Here are some of the relevant threads he began:
- where he requests contacts
- where he publishes portion of his theory as a Kindle book
- where he announces more "breakthroughs" and insights and offers to cure or at least alleviate simple ailments
Once again: I understand it's highly unlikely there's anything in his theory; still, I felt a cost-benefit analysis justified my making this post here.
So... anyone with enough understanding of biology/medicine to evaluate these claims of his?