Don't know where else to put this. It's related to ATM, but only a question. It's not astronomy for Q&A, so I hope this will do. Moderators do what you will.

I've noticed a pattern in the many worst-informed efforts to promote ideas in ATM. It seems to me that one could make a good case for a link between Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and crackpotism (which I define over-simply here as immovable loyalty to insupportable ideas and theories, especially if they are one's own). I've noticed the pattern before, but it was put in sharp perspective by these lines quoted in a recently closed ATM post:

"But looking at the images from the Hubble it can be seen that all galaxies slant in different directions, which would suggest that some kind of trick of the eye exists. an aspect that astrophysicists seem to have ignored."

...the implication presumably being that they should all be lined up in neat lockstep orientation--and would be if the OP had anything to say about it. There's also a fairly clear evidence of accompanying narcissistic paranoia in statements that suggest (insist!) the best educated minds in the world building on years of slowly accumulated and verified evidence have nonetheless got it all wrong (not that they can't get it wrong, but the chances of any of these "education-be-damned" fellows arriving at the correct answer based on monthly perusal of Discover Magazine fall on pretty short odds).

Comments?

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"To complete the picture all the photons can be seen to be synchronising friction on and off throughout the overall cone which itself is synchronised to the equal and opposite reaction of equilateral triangulation"... by a scientificator in ATM, too priceless to be lost to posterity.