Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Who wasn't the last loon to change his name to Koresh,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Teed

who hatched an amusing frame-of-reference controversy with his "cellular cosmogony" theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreshanity

In a nutless but totally insane nutshell, the idea is that we live on the inside of an enormous sphere, with centrifugal force--or something--keeping us pinned to the inside walls, while the stars orbit the center of the sphere... somehow. Light travels in circles, dogs and cats live together in peace; it's all f&^ked up.

In some ways it proved annoyingly difficult to disprove, for reasons I dare not pretend I understand.

Apparently the name "Koresh" means "compound-runnin' cult leader." But this Koresh brought his cult to Florida instead of Texas, where his commune is now a state historic landmark instead of burning ashes at the hands of the ATF. The last of the "hollow earth" followers lived into the late 20th Century.