Sentences with phrase «more crackpot»

It's easy to write off the Stephans» treatment as just one more crackpot cure in a field rife with fraud and false hope.

Labour's union, council, public sector and, increasingly tenuous, business links act as a drag anchor on some of its more crackpot elements.

The world need one more crackpot on a mission from God, doesn't it?

Not exact matches

NIA looks like it has a lot of good information mixed with bad, but they're still a bunch of crackpots wailing about hyperinflation with little regard for the historical profligacies it takes to cause the levels they're afraid (or for a more modern example the comedic horror tale that is Venezuela).

Jewish philanthropy, he asserted, was content to mobilize more resources «to combat one crackpot anti-Semite than to deal with the Jewish illiteracy of millions of Jews....

But C. Wright Mills was correct when he called such assumptions «crackpot realism,» for when we act on them we help guarantee that the future will contain only more of the same.

The party was more bothered with pleasing its own fissiparous cliques; the wannabe Dave Sparts, the bedsit revolutionaries, the local government crackpots who refused to set a rate, the headbangers of Militant.

YOU»D think Carlos Frenk would be pleased that no one calls him a crackpot any more.

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.

Rusty Griswold — who had always seemed more in touch than his crackpot poppa — is now a father himself.

With actual fake news inspiring more suspicion and crackpot theories, «The «Burbs» has lost none of its freshness.

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.

We are about as secure in our positions as anyone could be, and far more reliable, for that very reason, as honest brokers 0n any subject than the jumble of special - interest servers and crackpots that populate the denialsphere.

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.