RE: Interesting Crackpots Vol. 2: Alfred Lawson, Father of Lawsonomy

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If you are going to post about "Interesting Crackpots" on the internet you need to post about the internet's OG crackpot Alex Chiu.



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Oh I'll get to him eventually. Though generally I prefer to focus on guys who had some sort of following or tried to advance an ambitious "theory of everything" to an unreceptive world.

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O.K. Also don't forget about John Worrell Keely.

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Oh fascinating, an early securities fraud/investment scam! Usually when guys do this, it's a perpetual motion machine of some sort like the "permanent free energy magnetic motor" but the "vaporic motor/Keely Engine" has a certain steampunk ring to it

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