John Carlos Baez on Nostr: - unfortunately my interest in crackpots, which led me to create the Crackpot Index, ...

- unfortunately my interest in crackpots, which led me to create the Crackpot Index, has also led me to read with some interest the crackpot emails I get. Some of them are actually attracted to me because I wrote the Crackpot Index! That's amazing, like a kind of insect that's attracted to insecticide.