Sentences with phrase «of crackpot»

I like that all the commenters ignore that the players behind PayPal and Square and Stripe ALL believe that cryptocurrencies will be the future of digital payments, and dismiss Bitcoin as some sort of crackpot fringe idea.

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.

This works across a range of scientific abilities, but then curiously drops like a rock when we get to the domain of the crackpot.

If these musings had been received for what they actually were — the wacky theories of a crackpot academic — all would have been well.

Given his history, his choice of a crackpot for energy adviser isn't terribly surprising.

Markopolos was routinely ignored, mocked, and dismissed as some sort of crackpot.

But it's enough to see that AGW is real and serious, and it's a heck of a lot better than having a head stuffed full of crackpot memes.

Either way, he was certainly some kind of crackpot genius, and his cartoonish, sexually charged, mystically suggestive colored - pencil drawings from the 1950s, on view in «From Barefoot Prophet to Avant - Garde Artist «at Michael Werner Gallery, are as compelling for their beautiful draftsmanship as they are for their bizarre metaphysics and gleefully fierce satire.

Belle takes care of her father, Maurice (a solid Kevin Kline), a sweet, widowed tinkerer some regard as kind of a crackpot.

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

We also explored another round of Crackpot Theories and gave away our final mini-poster!

If the movies have taught us nothing else, it's that the fiery apocalypse will likely ride in on a wave of crackpot robot technology.

«A new generation of students raised to believe in dark matter often assumes I must be some kind of crackpot.»

It used to be thought of as a sort of crackpot, fringe activity that people could do when they were old and retired.

Battling the interference of 658 MPs, plus Peers, press and Royalty; coaxing and soothing his collaborator Pugin; fending of the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, including Dr Reid and his Ventilator, and assaults from the egos of countless busybodies intent on destroying his reputation and coming in three times over budget and 17 years behind schedule, Barry eventually succeeded — after countless setbacks and rows which contributed to his death in 1860.

Is also the mantra of flat earthers, 9/11 truthers, birthers, moon landing deniers, and all other purveyors of crackpot conspiracy theories like «he baited her into being violent towards him because he knew a passerby would call the police and get an investigation started that would lead to charges being considered against her in order to get her fired from her job with the endgame goal of, I don't know, making her jointhe lizard people or something?»

But what he can not understand is why anybody should be enough of a crackpot to vote for Norman Thomas, or why any real American should be in love with the Russians enough to vote for Henry Wallace.

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).

What a pack of crackpots.

For example, in his lengthy survey of numerous reported Marian apparitions, Mr. Martin never makes it clear, stylistically or otherwise, which ones might be regarded as genuine and which ones the fabrications of crackpots.

Many of them would have preferred to dismiss him as one of the crackpots who haunt the fringes of philosophy.

One of those physicists is Andreas Rathke, a former research fellow at the European Space Agency, who is described on the agency's website as having «debunked a high number of crackpots.»

confusing story though because he was supposedly one of those crackpots who go around and say «don't buy anything»... so if he never bought anything how could he own a magic spear?

This is a well populated distribution only inasmuch as 95 % of the scientists who study this area all agree that the world is warming, and there are a set of crackpots and cranks who jump up and down using numerology and ignoring 90 % of the available data to conclude the opposite.

There were plausible reasons to believe that global cataclysm was a fantasy of crackpots and Bible fundamentalists.

You're appalled because a couple of crackpots (out of thousands of non-crackpots that read the article) post crackpot ideas on a public forum?

In my opinion this site has no shortage of crackpots positing from either the left or right.

Not exact matches

You're going to get a bunch of desperate crackpots who want to tie themselves to the Cuban name for notariety.

But Comey's invective will now feed the crackpot conspiracy theory of Trump partisans who are convinced that an organization made up primarily of conservative, white, middle - aged male cops is out to get a Republican president.

Besides that crackpot theory, the general consensus among them is that this is some kind of scam.

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.

If you get your Popes and Pastors, fundamentalist anti-science crackpots, drill baby drill anti-environmentalists, and other backward ignorant obstacles out of our way, we will.

this author is a crackpot... obviously he has spent most of his life searching for answers... and never getting the point.

There's a huge difference between being spiritually aware / having a faith, and being one of these evangelical crackpots that want to make some parts of their faith * law for everyone in the country *.

It turned out not only did almost all of them believe in this invisible power, but they presented evidence from presentations every bit as fake and crackpot as you basic faith healer cr @p.

Otherwise, a small group of religious crackpots is going to give us all a bad name.

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

A great many intellectuals of the twentieth century, and many of the most distinguished, were drawn to Marxism; the few fascist intellectuals were virtually all second «rate crackpots.

From Southern Baptist boycotts of Disney and theonomic tub - thumpers screaming blue murder from crackpot websites to Roman Catholic grandees assuming that their academic achievements require that the world take them seriously, Christians have proved adept at the ways and means of worldly «political politics.»

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.

Science eventually proved those theories to be correct, but that doesn't mean that every crackpot theory is just as valid as any other because some of them were proved correct — that's stupid reasoning!!!

They imagine a crackpot mathematics where they can win elections without the mass of their own voters.

«Crackpot realism» is a phrase not much used since the Vietnam era, but it comes to mind in reading Bacevich's account of our present circumstance.

And what crackpot came up with the idea of 100 + elements in the so - called periodic table?

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....

In much the same way in which Luke Skywalker initially failed to discern the true identity and wisdom of his mentor Yoda, I dismissed George as an affable crackpot.

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.

My great uncle identified such folk as being examples of what he called «psycho ceramics», religious crackpots!

I'm not laughing at it I don't care about its opinion An arsenal fan would not be arguing to keep a delusional crackpot of a manager in place.

That guy is the king of internet «natural» crackpots.