Quote from traderNik:
It is astounding... you will believe anything you find on the internet, won't you? I mean you just believe anything you see. If someone says 'This man has an IQ of 210', you just believe it right away. If someone says 'This video shows the WTC being taken down by controlled explosions', you just believe it right away!!
This level of naivete is stunning. I always wondered who went for those Nigerian scams. My questions are answered. No wonder you have all those cockamamie conspiracy theories floating through your muddled head.
I swear to God, after spending time at this site, I have come to understand why people scam others out of money. Because it is so fucking easy and these people are too stupid to warrant any sympathy. They're almost like a different lifeform.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Michael_Langan">Wikipedia.org</a>
Christopher Michael Langan (born c.1957) is a noted American autodidact and self-styled expert in the fields of mathematics, physics, cosmology and the cognitive sciences[1]. Various media sources report Langan as having an estimated IQ of 195.[2][3][4][5] Filmmaker Errol Morris directed an hour-long documentary on Langan titled "The Smartest Man in the World". According to 20/20, Langan scored "off the charts" when tested by Dr. Robert Novelly. Novelly, a board certified neuropsychologist, commented that Langan was "the highest individual that I have ever measured in 25 years" of testing.[6]
With only a small amount of college, Langan has held a variety of labor-intensive jobs including construction worker, cowboy, firefighter, farmhand, and perhaps most famously, bar bouncer. Accordingly, he has sometimes been stereotyped as the sort of individual who combines an extremely high IQ with little or no official recognition in the academic "real world" of intellectual commerce [7][8]. Langan, who grew up in Montana, currently owns and operates a horse ranch in northern Missouri. Langan has written question and answer columns for New York Newsday[9], The Improper Hamptonian[10], and Men's Fitness[11] He also serves on the board of the Mega Foundation, a nonprofit foundation for the gifted, and is a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design (ISCID), an intelligent design think tank.[12]
In 2001 Langan was featured in Popular Science magazine, where he discussed his "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU)[13]. Arguing that theories and inferences, including inductively-derived laws of nature, are bound together in a more general relationship between mind and reality, Langan explores the implications of this idea in various contexts including physics and cosmology, biological origins and evolution, psychology, ethics, and theology in a 56-page paper published by ISCID in 2002[14]. In 2004, Langan contributed a chapter to the book Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, a collection of essays edited by by intelligent design proponent William Dembski[15]. In the chapter, Langan discusses the strengths and weaknesses of both intelligent design and neoDarwinism and proposes a synthesis by means of the CTMU, which has a "meta-Darwinian message"[16].