Ok.

The site was actually profiled in the New York Times a while back.

I guess it seems harmless enough to some to be labeled a crank, kook
or crackpot, or maybe many think it is deserved?

But why?

Some group assessment makes it ok?  A democratic process?

If you anger enough people on newsgroups then they have the right to
smear you across the web?

I just checked Yahoo! and searching on "james harris" brings up a link
to that page at #4.

<quote>1 - 10 of 1,480,000 for "james harris" </quote>

Now how many people linking to that site are likely to go further and
see how justified the insult is?  And yes, it IS an insult.  A very
personal one and I did argue with Erik Max Francis before and I am
certain he knows that it is hurtful.

Now consider one of my research finds.

Sieve form of my prime counting function:

With natural numbers x and n, where p_i is the i_th prime:

P(x,n) = x - 1 - sum for i=1 to n of {P([x/p_i],i-1) - (i-1)}

where if n is greater than the count of primes up to and including
sqrt(x) then n is reset to that count.

That is the algorithm for counting prime numbers, so for instance,
P(100,4) = 25.  P(10,2) = 4, and those prime are 2, 3, 5 and 7.

That is one of the end results of a pure thinking exercise done back
in 2002 so the main research is over 6 years old.

It is also rather fast even in that basic form and more compact than
any other representation of a prime counting function other than brute
force.

The crackpot label is about keeping my research under wraps.

And it works amazingly well.

The stark conclusion I've drawn is depressing: any research of any
type can be handled in our modern age by some rather basic techniques
using group processes.

I theorize one could actually block acceptance of a cure for cancer.
(Why would anyone?  Think about it.  What if they only wanted to block
it from YOU and your family but use it themselves?)

Placed with it in front of them, most people would defer to even a
casual negative from a webpage from someone they do not even know.

It is, I fear, built into the design of the human brain.

James Harris