The segments played like documentaries directed by Christopher Guest but they were real, just about people who believed crackpot things.
I think that a lot of reasons why there has not been more serious work in this area is that academics don't want to be conflated with flaky, crackpot type of things.
As a kid reading about these pioneers, I thought they were so cool — all the outlaws and crackpots who started the thing up.
But if we're going to change any of those things, then outright denialism and crackpot theories are the enemy, along with the kind of bullshit journalism that helped people into this mess in the first place.
But if we're going to change any of those things, then outright denial and crackpot theories are the enemy, along with the kind of bullshit journalism that helped people into this mess in the first place.
There he embarked on, among other things, a translation of Raymond Queneau's crackpot account of the Creation, A Small Portable Cosmogony, but found himself defeated by the alchemical-scientific allusions.
But the ability to focus a dating search on one specific category can also be horrifying if the category of interest is built around pernicious things like hate or violence or crackpot ideas.
Before you roll your eyes and write me off as a yoghurt-knitting crackpot, making your own cheese is not a hippy thing.
Anyway, the weird thing is that Jerome isn't just some hillbilly crackpot making outrageous, homophobic claims at an NRA barbecue, but a Harvard-educated journalist who writes for World Net Daily, an ultra-conservative news organisation that boasts headlines like "Kids Drink 'Gay' Kool-Aid".
He could easily do the same thing again here, by, for example, demanding support for his crackpot scheme of arming teachers.
