Eliezer Yudkowsky promotes occasional provocative assertions in
research contexts:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/i-defy-the-data.html
Some of the comments are quite good, too.
-- 
         Michael M. Butler  :  m m b u t l e r  ( a t )  g m a i l . c o m
         "I'm going to get over this some time. Might as well be now."