What should the FDA do about crackpot beliefs that inspire people to buy overpriced juice?
The authors in their effort to support a crackpot theory used data that is essentially useless.
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Coming up with crackpot theories and having them slapped down by the IRS and the courts.
If anything, that admission only further damaged his credibility: The crackpot artist was now also deemed a megalomaniac.
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The man was 65-years old and until a year earlier was generally considered to be a crackpot and a political has-been.
Wilhelm Reich was a crackpot psychiatrist of the 1950s with a theory about energy from outer space called orgone that could be captured and infused into a patient.
Gonjasufi may sound at first like a rambling hip-hop crackpot, but there's more to the California rapper and singer than mere eccentricity: What appears messy and thrown together is anything but.
And he cannot be simply dismissed as a crackpot: Huber served on the board of directors of a Swiss bank and holding company that President Bush accused of helping fund al Qaeda.
In that film, Ms. Marling played an enigmatic beauty who might have been, as she claimed, a time-traveler from the future, or the cynical priestess of a crackpot cult in the San Fernando Valley.
Inexplicably, we transfer this illogical message to our investing lives, taking out-sized bets on flaky stocks, following crackpot self-help promoters or simply staying far too long in assets that clearly have run their course.
If we followed the crackpot advice of James Pittman, then all medical research would stop, hundreds of thousands of people's jobs would be lost, and most importantly no new medicines would be developed to treat disease.
"The Aviator" bites off only a slice of Hughes's story, choosing to avoid his unsavory sex life and crackpot politics, and ending before his move to Las Vegas, where he descended into the depths of solitary madness.
Although the safety of food served in restaurants falls outside the HSE's remit, the case of an establishment which refused to serve a hamburger rare was cited by the HSE as one of a number of "crackpot cases".
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He went on to find similar flaws in many lotteries in Canada and U.S., and to have a hard time getting people who designed lotteries to listen to his warnings, as they tended to assume he was a crackpot.
Imagine where the company might be today if Rollhaus had stuck exclusively with road safety after a crackpot inventor burst into his office at a small, Chicago-based venture capital firm in 1969, hoping to develop car bumpers filled with water.
He is not some silly crackpot.
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She's convinced that she's seeing someone murder the kid in an apple orchard, but she's not really sure. (Her husband, an airline pilot played by Aidan Quinn, rightfully assumes she's a crackpot.) The apple motif appears repeatedly throughout the film, usually to less-than-inspiring effect.
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And I'll say this: even if the movie's logic ultimately spirals down into a vortex of hysteria, horror and hokum, I enjoyed the bulldozer intensity of the climax, which barely keeps a lid on the crackpot cult movie that's wrestling for the soul of this multimillion dollar blockbuster.
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