“ . . . the Pacific Plate's Stress Center is actively generating solar induced semi-diurnal stress changes within the Core-Mantle boundary where convective currents are being enhanced by changes in the core related to a Sun-Earth energetic connection”

I've got one better...

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"This nonsense is not harmless. People turn to the Internet to get information. Many of them are naďve or otherwise unable to separate the wheat from the chaff. "

Absolutely. Those who don't know any better will not recognize the errors of what they read from what they surmise to be a reputable source. Wikipedia as a whole is a great resource and I've learned much from it. Although, there are little spots of cancer here and there.

Some folks can recognize these blights because of other skills they already have, even if they have no extensive knowledge on the topic which they read. Knowing your logical fallacies and biases goes a long way towards recognizing poor and erroneous information.

Fortunately, it's not that difficult to catch the young student and guide them before they have their thought processes totally polluted. Once they've started down the dark path of pseudoscience, it is very difficult to get them to unlearn what they have already learned.

Those who have believed in something for so long are the most difficult to rectify. It has been demonstrated in psychological studies that the very fact of their lack of knowledge causes them to make two errors - that they overestimate their own knowledge and that they underestimate the knowledge of experts. I'm sure we all have seen these types on the various forums we peruse. Typically it's demonstrated through phrases like, "I've been studying this for years and the scientists are all wrong."

I personally am at somewhat of an impasse regarding trying to bring knowledge to these unfortunate souls. I have been studying on and off methods of reasoning and logic and really want to try to help people understand the folly of their ways. But inevitably the conversations turn to ad hominems, and although I'd like to throw them back, and sometimes do, I am also aware of Spinoza's Dictum,

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

I apparently lack the language skills necessary to re-educate a fool without telling them they are such.

Brian