personal life often was difficult

The Spring Festival eve I participate in a draft special programs recordings, as an invited the judges on some "folk inventor" invention. Strictly speaking, to exhibit in the thing some hard to distinguish invention, even a product model all have no, just a set of paranoia. For example a junior high school cultural degree of laid-off workers will have only a few sketch, claiming that he have overthrown the existing physics, create a new set of physics, accordingly can create no wheels car, even elixir and will receive the Nobel Prize. This kind of maximising probably nobody will believe, but from some entertainment judge but admire person bold exploration, challenge authority spirit, gave his biggest red envelopes.

These people have been called "folk scientists", but I feel called "pseudoscience delusion home" more appropriate. Their common characteristic is cultural degree generally is not high, or although also have received higher education but lack related fields professional training, but think I made the most important scientific discovery, unable to get the scientific community recognition. Even the students can find its loopholes, but they considered by academic authority obstacles in contemporary Copernicus and Galileo pose, everywhere to sell yourself. They sell the harder actually far exceeded its "explore" the harder, possibly just takes a few days, several months to get a brainwave made "discovery", and then take a lifetime to sell, believe in yourself achievement would someday get recognized. Because obsessed with which to extricate themselves.

Entertainers who may be first contact to this kind of person, feel very fresh. I am from university undergraduate course since then they have continued to see this kind of person, calculate down without hundreds also have dozens of popes. Before is often in domestic famous university campuses, Chinese academy of sciences various institute the doorway, threshold low academic conference in the audience see these people figure, are always at the network BBS (especially those with science related BBS) see them outpouring of posts. I occasionally to receive these people to send the manuscript, complain because domestic academic corruption leads to their achievements buried and hope for them I justice. Once there who wish to cooperate with me and asked me to put his paper translated into English published, later if got Nobel Prize, bonus and I halved.

Psychological science think such believes it is great inventor, scientists who had "exaggerated paranoid-delusional", it is a kind of schizophrenia. This kind of person of course not China have, foreign also have is. But China such people in its number of other countries (see chart 3). Why China teems with pseudoscience delusion home? I had analyzed, think there are four sorts of reason: the first is the traditional factors. Ancient Chinese and no scientific tradition, only technology tradition.