Re: [math-fun] New Year's oddity

DD: "... the ability to perform arcane searches for mathematical curiosities opens the door for lunatics or charlatans to make non-mathematical use." Martin Gardner was probably as vehemently antagonistic towards lunatics and charlatans as anyone. His Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science preceded his mathematical columns in Scientific American by four years. And he continued to debunk pseudo-science to the end of his life. Nevertheless, over the years, he promoted some twenty articles of numerological trivia under the guise of Dr. Matrix. Was that wrong?