Control is a big thing for Eastwood, whose "logic of life" is deeply entwined with his Libertarian politics, which he brings up with a wry smile, taking into account that most people think Libertarianism is at best unrealistic and at worst crackpot.
Though colleagues snicker at their crackpot ideas, they may console themselves with the thought that they all laughed at Wegener too.
Look at this crackpot idea that we had in 1920 of abolishing individual nations and putting them together under a Yugoslav flag.
Time magazine wrote on 18 November 1957: According to psychologist Luis Cordon, Reich's slide from medical and scientific respectability concluded with the consensus inside and outside the psychoanalytic community that he was at best a crackpot, and at worst was suffering from a serious illness.
At 17 he joined the British Interplanetary Society, an organisation then widely regarded as crackpot, but of which he was later to be treasurer and, eventually, chairman.
John Aldridge freely admits to being "a bit of a crackpot at times", such is his passion for the game.
In person, its expanse of red Indian sandstone and wavy ribbons of glass is beautiful, and not crackpot at all.The design has an exciting, practical purpose.
Surely the supposed ultra-enlightened intelligence of forum atheism is at odds with crackpot conspiracies?
Oliver Lodge, distinguished physicist and frequent lecturer at the Royal Institution – no crackpot outfit, but the very seat of British scientific research – thought so.
This "observer effect" is the inevitable undoing of Prof. Hester Rosenfeld, whose crackpot attempt at scholarly research into the life and times of her own lover takes her to Munich for a prolonged session of participant observation.
