Fred Gruenberger's Measure for Crackpots (1962):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2006/P2678...
John Baez's Crackpot Index (1998):
What to Do When the Trisector Comes (PDF, 1983) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34404927 - Jan 2023 (1 comment)
Beware of Cranks: Misguided attempts to solve impossible mathematical problems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21206633 - Oct 2019 (61 comments)
What to Do When the Trisector Comes (1983) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14446708 - May 2017 (28 comments) (<-- hello!)
"Is well-knew the refran: of the said to made it has a good road."
Why is that the central tenet of being a paradoxer? To me, that’s how I learn and internalize things. I take the premise under study, find some consequence that feels absurd, and turn it this way and that in my mind until the flaw in my own previous thinking becomes clear to me.
Are there better ways of learning?
Does this make me more prone to being a paradoxer?
So I had quite a few "groundbreaking" approaches end in disappointment.
It's important to know the capabilities and limits of your tools.
If what you say is true, shouldn’t that make the understanding of trisectors more urgent and important? If anything, this is more relevant than before.