Unfortunately, we don't seem to have a shortage of crackpot scientists in our day and age.
Does anyone here remember Ron Wyatt? the seventh day adventist who claimed to have found Noah's Ark, and the Ark of the Covenant, aswell, as the Chariot wheels of Pharoahs army in the Red Sea etc.
Kent Hovind, Carl Baugh,.... etc. All these guys are about as....well, you know.
Corpus Maritanius 1964 -