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The warning signs of "crankhood" are well-publicized on the web (such as at www. crank.net) because it is so full of them.
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Erm, I linked to that in the OP, and explicitly said I am not after generic crankhood, but specifically after diagnostic properties of pseudoscience.
Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Which is, I guess, what I'm on the way to becoming - unless I do become an old lady prodigy, or give in fully to those still wispy tendencies towards misanthropic, hermit crankhood.
Pink Slip Maureen Rogers 2010
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In the interest of fending off incipient crankhood, I am making a conscious effort to occasionally write something positive about things I like.
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fending off incipient crankhood and occasionally writing something positive and not critical,
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