You may be a crackpot if The above discussion of whether Sarfatti is or isn t a crackpot and why causes the irresistable impulse to reply in a manner reminiscent of Jeff Foxworthy s You may be a redneck if series of humorous items If the defining moment of your adolescence is when you were telephoned by extraterrestrials then you just may be a crackpot If you are the recipient of the Victor von Frankenstein Weird Science Award of the alt usenet kooks newsgroup then you could possibly be a crackpot If you think the Wikipedia article about you fails to meet the Neutral Point of View policy because it doesn t properly reflect how fabulously brilliant you and your scientific theories are then just possibly you could have a chance of being a crackpot If you have threatened to report your critics to the FBI CIA NSA or Department of Homeland Security as perpetrators of treason because their criticism of you threatens national security and may constitute an offense punishable by the death penalty then it is not beyond the realm of possibility that you could be a crackpot If you react with great vehemence with long semi coherent rants and tirades to the slightest suggestion that you are a crackpot then this could quite possibly constitute evidence that you are in fact a crackpot