Sentence examples for with crackpot from inspiring English sources

For years, he associated himself with crackpot theories that disputed the demonstrable fact that AIDS was transmitted by a treatable virus.

"I get a lot of approaches from people with crackpot ideas," says Chapman. "Bronwyn immediately struck me as different – someone highly intelligent, very organised, and street smart.

Surely the supposed ultra-enlightened intelligence of forum atheism is at odds with crackpot conspiracies?

The Word for Word column last Sunday, a selection of journalists' anecdotes about experiences they had had with crackpots, misstated the surname of one of the journalists.

Take a look around key committees of the House and you'll find a governing body stocked with crackpots whose views on major issues are as removed from reality as Missouri's Representative Todd Akin's take on the sperm-killing powers of a woman who's been raped.

No, that's filled with crackpots on the left and right claiming that health care will fix everyone's problems automatically or destroy the country as soon as it's signed into law.

She's best friends with James Van Der Beek from Dawson's Creek – playing himself with a crackpot intensity – and they spend their days in a vortex of empty self-infatuation.

Later, I recall, someone even came up with a crackpot theory that men and women's swimming in the same water could result in pregnancy.

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.

Griffin's Libyan trip, and his flirtation with various crackpot dictators, has itself given rise to a number of conspiracy theories about Griffin himself - that he has links with MI6 (something he denies).

For five years, Trump has wasted our time with his crackpot birther conspiracy theory.