- A
charlatan (also
called a
swindler or mountebank) is a
person practicing quackery or a
similar confidence trick in
order to
obtain money, power, fame...
- It has also been
described as fraud, fakery, deceitful, irrational,
charlatanry, and quackery. Even
supporters have been
forced to
admit that sleight-of-hand...
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attack on
Edward Said's 1978 book Orientalism,
which he
calls "malignant
charlatanry, in
which it is hard to
distinguish honest mistakes from
willful misrepresentations...
- be
known as a "Chaldaean"
carried with it
frequently the su****ion of
charlatanry and of more or less
willful deception. One of the more
famous examples...
- film
critic Nigel Andrews called the film "an
inspired piece of
editing charlatanry as a
Welles growling out
questions from a New York
studio pretends to...
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further affect validity." In the 2007 peer-reviewed
academic article "
Charlatanry in
forensic speech science", the
authors reviewed 50
years of lie detector...
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Westerners viewed yoga with su****ion,
grouping it with
fakirs (pictured in 1907) and
charlatanry....
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Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521849876 Füssel,
Marian (2006), "'The
Charlatanry of the Learned': On the
Moral Economy of the
Republic of
Letters in Eighteenth-Century...
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experienced on the way to the Holy Land and some who did not. In this time,
charlatanry and
false miracles were common. He
later claimed Christ had
visited him...
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frankly states that the "book
seems to me to be a work of
malignant charlatanry in
which it is hard to
distinguish honest mistakes from
wilful misrepresentations...
