And all the stars that never were.

My impression of cranks who participate in forums related
to science is that they're hoping that some scientist there
who reads their words will consider them worthy and bring
them to the attention of other scientists.  Then one thing
follows another and the crank's ideas would be discussed
in prestigious journals, and the crank would become famous.
They are hoping to be noticed by somebody influential who
can get them into the inner circles of science.
They remind me of these lines, from an old song, about
another kind of striver hoping to become famous:
"L. A. is a great big freeway,
Put a hundred down and buy a car.
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star.
Weeks turn into years, how quick they pass,
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLa-1q-lkw
Keep your day job.
--
David Canzi
"It [science] must be amoral by its very nature: the minute it begins
separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones
it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology."
-- H. L. Mencken, The American Mercury, September 1927