Sentences with phrase «by crackpots»

Will editorials and social media comments labeling The Silurian Hypothesis as a crackpot paper written by a crackpot climate scientist help or diminish the hard work of all climate scientists and many others?

For amusement, I'm computing Peter Carson's Crackpot index, with additional scoring by Crackpot index redux.

Although I guess a case can be made for saying that if anything is written by a crackpot and reviewed by another crackpot that, too, is peer review!

Not exact matches

The problem has not gone away, however, a fact that was perhaps most stunningly confirmed by the jaw - dropping news that a crackpot September 11 conspiracy book, written by a «process» theologian from Claremont, is being published and marketed by the official press of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Westminster John Knox Press.

There nobility and royalty lived in a pseudo-religious ferment, enchanted in turn by necromancy, Dionysianism, theosophy, spiritualism, and countless other profound or crackpot movements.

In main of late a decade of republicans in govt / / having a extreme right wing agenda spurned on by their halfbaked crackpot religious ideas / beliefs / having brought upon humanity a river of blood a river of tears / great suffering.

@ODIrony: The man doesn't have to be made into a crackpot by the media.

Too bad he is being called to be under no pressure by some disrespectful crackpots.

Corbyn aide Andrew Fisher, the crackpot who wrote abusive tweets about Labour MPs and backed a rival party, has been let off with a warning by the party's NEC and had his suspension lifted, reports PA..

«It's total nonsense, like how these crackpots are out to remove President Obama from office by saying he wasn't born in Hawaii,» Maslow said.

And as I said the scales fell off from my eyes; I read every chapter with enormous fascination and I was also fascinated by the fact, this was Martin's second edition, and in his preface to it, he said that when the first edition it come out he was inundated by letters from enthusiastic people who said to him that they loved every chapter of his book except for one, and they would always pick [out] the ones that, their favorite crackpot belief system was being attacked, and then they would say they were so happy to see all the others destroyed.

It's not surprising that some crackpot could come up with this curve — for example, there are «museums» in the United States that portray dinosaurs living side - by - side with early humans.

He's an over-the-hill crackpot, scoffed at by all, except for a wide - eyed British grad student, Holly (Anna Friel), who thinks he's a misunderstood genius.

In Michigan, Violet experiences a professional blossoming: She's thrilled with her adviser (Rhys Ifans) and her fellow postdocs, even though, as played by Mindy Kaling, Randall Park, and Kevin Hart, they seem more like lovable crackpots than stimulating colleagues.

crackpot archaeologist played by James Spader) figures out a way to use the gate.

Set in WWI Russia by way of claustrophobic sets transformed into Maddin's dreamland imagery, this story of a one - legged soldier (Maddin regular Kyle McCulloch) caught in a romantic triangle between his lovesick landlady and a married nurse (Kathy Marykuca) who resembles his dead lover is less a parody of silent cinema than a loving crackpot tribute.

Crackpot Theories: Was Prim's name planted in the Reaping by rebels who knew that Katniss would volunteer to take her place?

Audiences were confused by the tangled plot but the rambling, weirdly funny picture is the kind of crackpot odyssey I love.

Still living in Japan, Joe remains haunted, seen by his son as a crackpot conspiracy theorist trying to prove the calamity was not a natural disaster.

King Boo has fragmented the Dark Moon that shines over Evershade Valley, sending the ghosts mad, and Luigi is unwillingly summoned by the pint - sized crackpot Professor E. Gadd to strap on his trusty Poltergust vacuum and fix it.

And the «Hollywood Crackpot of the Month» is David Poland David Poland upgraded to «Hollywood Crackpot of the Year» On file at the Internal Revenue Service is a 2006 tax document submitted by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, a non-profit group that each year hosts the Critics Choice Awards on TV.

The story is simple: A sheriff and his crackpot crew set out to rescue some townfolk that are taken and held captive by troglodytes.

HuffPo does have a small staff of editors and journalists, yet their «vetted» content is not displayed all that differently from articles written by minor journalists, occasional crackpots or various celebrities.

Every town has its Craigslist Crackpots, but occasionally, a vehicle comes along that requires needs a blow - by - blow analysis.

More than 900 Americans — nearly 300 of them children — died in a Guyanese jungle in 1978 after a dangerous crackpot named Jim Jones told them to commit suicide by swallowing a poison - infused drink.

Not a Hero is based around a crackpot team of operatives recruited by Bunnylord in his election campaign.

Jeremy Sigler is the author of five books, the most recent being Crackpot Poet, additional titles include To and To, Mallet Eyes, Led Almost by My Tie (with Jessica Stockholder), and Math.

I was really impressed by its dark humor and crackpot thoroughness.

Climate Denier Crackpot Index — October 16, 2008 by greenfyre [BUT DOUBTING THOMAS IS THE CRANK???? LIKE WTF IS THAT ABOUT HANK????] https://greenfyre.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/climate-denier-crackpot-index/

We seem to have an atavistic response to impressive titles such as that sported by Mr. Monckton, even when the very minor lord in question is a flaming crackpot.

Signing on to a crackpot theory by someone not even in the business would almost certainly be a terrible career move.

By last count there are 40 + crackpots that place comments on this blog who have just as odd theories concerning AGW and climate science as Myrrhh does.

The next time we hear the IPCC throw out the authoritative reference to the peer reviewed literature and the scientific consensus, we are better able to concede that that is all very nice, but what we really know is that, at least, the papers were not authored by known crackpots.

But, from all I have read here (especially the comments by our hostess), I do not believe that it has been demonstrated that this is a «crackpot theory».

Mainstream climate science AGW bandwagon; AGW crackpottery; AGW, edifice of; AGW doctrine, lunacy, meme, movement, nutcases; alarm -LCB-- ist, - ism -RCB-; appalling climatology, from CRU, UEA, NASA, or other enlightened dump; CAGW gravy train; CAGW or C / AGW; calamatologists despise sceptics; carefully crafted lie; catastrophic; charlatans; church of CAGW; climate cult; Climate Scientists (outrageous) claims; Climategate; CO church; consensus science; crackpot -LCB-- tery, AGW -RCB-; cult of climatology; cult science of climatology climate church; Dellingpole has the answer call them out for the scum they are; diabolically clever to muzzle; dissent not allowed; dogma -LCB-- tic -RCB-; dogmatic cult; dud science; dumbasses; fraud; fraudulence of the claims to science made by the «consensus scientists.»

A rant from a crackpot who bases his opinions on the slightly - less - than - truthful info supplied / concocted / doctored by the slightly - less - than - truthful Tony Heller [aka «Steven Goddard»].

As far as I can tell, the «Landscheidt Minimum» used by internet crackpots to refer to the minimum of the 179 year solar cycle.

What is the science, referred to by Davey, which is contradicted by the «vested interests» and «crackpots and conspiracy theorists»?

How do the arguments advanced by «crackpots and conspiracy theorists» and «vested interests» contradict the science?

It's not surprising that some crackpot could come up with this curve — for example, there are «museums» in the United States that portray dinosaurs living side - by - side with early humans.

The real question is: why are we (and others) discussing the book by such a crackpot at all.

The scenario painted in the film «The Day After Tomorrow» seems extremely unlikely, even to most climate change advocates, but one could easily make a far more convincing version, based not on the effects of climate change, but the efforts of some crackpot to «save the world» from same by implementing some well meaning scheme that could all too easily lead to a disaster far more immediate and possibly far more destructive than anything a few degrees of temperature rise could produce.

Any one of them would be free to proceed with whatever nutty scheme they could be persuaded to implement by this or that crackpot with a «foolproof» plan to «save the planet.»

For a fun look at mathematical crackpots see «Mathematical Cranks» by Underwood Dudley.