How To Be A NewAge Quack Or Scientist

Accuse the entire scientific community of being wrong (unless you have compelling evidence, in which case you should argue for it in the scientific journals and at professional meetings, not in the media).

Design poor-quality experiments that are almost guaranteed to show your hypothesis is true, whether it really is or not. Use science to show THAT your treatment works, not to ask IF it works.

Keep using arguments that have already been thoroughly discredited. (The intelligent design folks are still claiming the eye could not have evolved because it is irreducibly complex; homeopaths are still claiming homeopathy cured more patients than conventional medicine in the 19th century epidemics).

Write books for the general public to promote your thesis – as if public opinion could influence science!

Form an activist organization to promote your beliefs.

Step outside the scientific paradigm and appeal to intuition and belief.

Mention the persecution of Galileo and compare yourself to him.

Invent a conspiracy theory (Big Pharma is suppressing the truth!).

Claim to be a lone genius who knows more than all the other scientists put together.

Offer a treatment to the public after only the most preliminary studies.

Set up a website to sell products that are not backed by good evidence.

Refuse to admit it when your hypothesis is proven wrong.