Sentences with phrase «saw as a charlatan»

That comes just three years after Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was depicted unfavorably in Paul Thomas Anderson's dramatic feature, «The Master,» with Phillip Seymour Hoffman playing the bombastic, charismatic leader — who some saw as a charlatan.

Not exact matches

If no order had been given about what to do while the charlatan was saying his mumbo - jumbo, there would not have been a problem — those who wanted to participate as their cult requires would have done so and nobody would have been checking to see who was doing what.

Michigan's charter school «industry» — and that's what it is, an industry; not an educational system, but rather a business model designed to steal public money and slip it into private bank accounts — is wildly out of control, an unregulated Wild West playground for unscrupulous hucksters, quacks and charlatans who see our school system and our children as an untapped well - spring of profits.

Scientists are authorities, unless they disagree with the true dogma — then they're fools and charlatans (as we see in a comment to this post).

The conservative MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel labels contrarians as «mavericks» and «charlatans», see HERE.

The agendas of the the climate change contrarian / denier pseudo-scientists («mavericks and charlatans» as Kerry Emanuel calls them, see HERE) are varied.

Yet increasingly I have a sense, perhaps nothing more than that as I read and listen, often from certain consultant charlatans that feed off the industry, that in a world in which commoditised content is prevalent, maybe the achievement of optimum quality standards is seen as not enormously important.