Word: charlatanism
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...Wyman is nothing but a charlatan, whose cheap politicking has resulted in no revelations of any importance whatsoever," Sweezy said...
...tonic, and Harry Hoxsey's special treatment, have brought him wealth -and fame of a sort. He has been denounced as a charlatan by the A.M.A.; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regards his tonic as worthless as a cancer cure. Yet some 40 new patients a day keep coming to the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas, hoping for the miracle cure-at $300 to $400 a treatment ("charity" patients pay little or nothing). Hoxsey friends are now trying to extend his domain beyond Texas. For weeks an attempt to establish a new Hoxsey clinic in Pennsylvania has been...
...paper and "one Chicago Tribune is enough." Nevertheless, newsmen must do more interpreting. "The good newspaper, the good news broadcaster, must walk a tightrope between two great gulfs-on one side the false objectivity that takes everything at face value and lets the public be imposed on by a charlatan with the most brazen front, on the other the 'interpretive' reporting which fails to draw the line between objective and subjective, between responsible and well-established fact and what the reporter or editor wishes were the fact . . . No wonder that too many fall back on the incontrovertible objective...
...Does it sort out the charlatan from the statesman? Are we quite sure that Father Coughlin and Huey Long wouldn't have been bigger with the help of television? You can't stop the picture and say, 'Go look at his voting record...
...education. He is not an educator in the usual sense: he never drafted a college catalogue or worried about a football team. He writes too well, and has made too much money writing, to be accepted by scholars as one of themselves. He has been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary, a would-be agent of the Inquisition. He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people...