A certain poster on HungAngels likes to bandy about the term kook to describe her detractors. Close examination of the term, however, reveals problems with her usage of the word:
Definitions of kook on the Web:
"Crank" (or kook, crackpot, or quack) is a pejorative term for a person who writes or speaks in an authoritative fashion about a particular subject, often in science, but is alleged to have false or even ludicrous beliefs. Usage of the label is often subjective, with proponents of competing theories labeling their opponents cranks, but typically is used to describe someone who is well out of mainstream opinion on a matter. In most cases the people labeled as crackpots turn out to be wrong.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...ition&ct=title
See also:
The psychology of cranks
As noted above, in addition to a general lack of ability to accurately assess their own skills and knowledge, many cranks also exhibit deficiencies in reading comprehension, logical reasoning, and other cognitive abnormalities, which may contribute both to how they arrive at some bizarre counterfactual belief in the first place, and to how they are able to cling to such a belief in the face of all objections.
Many cranks seem to exhibit certain symptoms of grandiosity or megalomania. This may perhaps also be understood, in terms of the phenomenon studied by Kruger and Dunning, as resulting from a simultaneous overinflation of their own social value and underestimation of the social value of others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%...logy_of_cranks
Internet cranks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%...nternet_cranks
alt.usenet.kooks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.usenet.kooks
Psychological projection
In psychopathology, projection is an especially commonly used defense mechanism in people with certain personality disorders:
Paranoid personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder
Psychopathy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Paranoid personality disorder, LMFAO!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)
Yours truly
-Quinn
