Crackpot in a sentence as a noun

"You can be completely correct and still be a crackpot.

You're only afraid of being labeled a crackpot in a tinfoil hat.

Does anyone remember the old days when Stallman was an over the top tin foil hat crackpot?

"I don't think any non-crackpot really believes that video games cause people to pick up guns and shoot people.

If you just released the raw data first, how long do you think it'd be before all manner of crackpot headlines popped up?

My gf had cancer and every crackpot we knew was advising on nonsense causes and treatments.

In that respect, to me RMS seems most valuable to us for precisely the reasons others call him a crackpot.

However, also a dangerous one, used by many a crackpot to justify their theories.

Some of us have spent quite a bit of time talking about these issues, and were mostly rejected as crackpot "conspiracy theorists".

The insidious thing about this is that history's lessons on the subject can not be cited without sounding like a crackpot.

Stallman never was a conspiracy crackpot, he always was a visionary.

Given the choice between "crackpot hypochondriac" and "disease most doctors won't see in a lifetime of practice", the former is far more common.

For those curious for more details about "He scores high on the crackpot index, but not high enough to be completely discredited as a lunatic.

He paid attention, just the wrong kind of attention -- crackpot cuckoo crazy alternative medicine attention.

You've been downmodded because password hash salts are public nonce values; usually, schemes that depend on "secret salts" are crackpot alternatives to secure password hashes.

The myriad other possibilities probably were never investigated enough to have a chance of leaving the crackpot realm.

Since all inflation is created by the US government as an unofficial policy [...] to fund an ongoing operating deficitThis is crackpot conspiracy theory stated as fact.

Have a dose of snark:You crackpot tinfoil hat-wearing kooks imagine all sorts of bizarro world stuff: the Bildeburgers, Skull and Bones, One-world elite conspiracies straight from the imagination of Dan Brown.

Funny how yesterday's "conspiracy crackpot" became today's visionary.

I'm the crackpot that believes there are ulterior motives in this pattern of institutional ignorance/behavior.~ ~When it comes to the marketing of high stakes legislation - know that the true motives are often-times blended with an actual public desire, with the bill being a means to another end entirely.

My negative thoughts centered around:1 - How can we build the next Microsoft without true ownership?2 - Does his model of thinking demand that 100% of the population be technical enough to troubleshoot their computers?3 - I can see people writing software for love, but who writes all the documentation?As the years go by, he's one of the few people who sounds less like a crackpot, even though he hasn't softened his extremism.

Crackpot definitions

noun

a whimsically eccentric person

See also: crank fruitcake screwball