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Here is how: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

For fun, pick up a copy of "A New Kind of Science" and infer Wolfram's crackpot index solely from the one book. Is he a crackpot? An outsider genius? A man who gets many things right but stumbles from time to time?

I like this page on that subject, particularly noticing how Wolfram made his own author blurb more crackpottish as time went on: http://chrishecker.com/Kurt_G%C3%B6del_is_Laughing_His_Ass_O...

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