Blog post: Disillusioned Physicist: Does science really need maths?

Given my recent tyraid about numerology I felt it was prudent to cover the counter crackpot.  Also, for those of you who care, you can follow me on twitter to find some interesting science tweets and when I post a new blog post.

These are people who believe maths is not required for modern science and that they have over turned some well known and understood theory with their own idea.  This is normally conducted without any knowledge of the theory or supporting evidence for the theory they are claiming to have overturned past why you might identify by reading science articles in the Daily Mail newspaper...

These people often suffer from delusions of grandeur or believe that science is a big conspiracy.  Here I shall ignore this and concentrate more on why it is flawed to think that way about any subject.  Again though, I'm a physicist, so this will be coming from a physics perspective...

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