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Another was a tweedy academic (lab-coat wearing pseudoscientist on a couple of drug commercials).

(3) The pseudoscientist is paranoid and feels he is the victim of a vast conspiracy designed to suppress his brilliant work.

"Basing conclusions on pictorial matching is fine if you're a pseudoscientist trying to sell a paperback book, but it's not good archaeology," Orville said.

Professional astronomer Phil Plait described Hoagland as a pseudoscientist and his claims as ridiculous.

Some television hosts and newspapers present Levashov as a professional physicist or meteorologist while others criticize him and call him a "pseudoscientist".

October 17 - Raffaele Bendandi, Italian pseudoscientist known for his predictions of earthquakes (died 1979)

Along with collectivisation, the central Government decreed several changes in agricultural techniques based on the ideas of Soviet pseudoscientist Trofim Lysenko.

The subtitle boldly states the book's theme: "The curious theories of modern pseudoscientist and the strange, amusing and alarming cults that surround them.

In his book, In the Name of Science, Martin Gardner defines the characteristics of the common crank or pseudoscientist.

In Spain, another science writer Luis Alfonso Gámez was sued after he notified the public about the lack of efficacy to support the claims of a popular pseudoscientist.

I could keep on publishing papers all my life, but the Journal wouldn't take them anymore, and without its imprimatur, my monographs got no more attention than those of some self-serving pseudoscientist.

Hoagland has been described by James Oberg of The Space Review and Dr. Phil Plait of Badastronomy.com as a conspiracy theorist and fringe pseudoscientist.

Yakovlev's "first faint doubts" about Stalin, he told Taubman and me, came from reading an article written by the Soviet leader - a great pseudoscientist, as well as a great tyrant -who posited that the Russian language had originated at a precise point near the cities of Orel and Kursk.

The theories of German pseudoscientist brothers Johannes and Peter Fiebag, propose that the metal and wire fragments could be part the Manna Machine, which they claim was buried on the island by the Knights Templar in 1398, along with the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail.