Charlatanism in a sentence as a noun

So to use breadth as a euphemism for charlatanism is a bit tendentious.

And within the sciences and technical fields, the limits of charlatanism are sooner reached.

That doesn't make said beliefs inherently wrong, but pretending that they're provably correct when they're not smacks of charlatanism.

I was downvoted in another thread for characterizing this dance as "charlatanism," but I will repeat it here.

The idea that a President could get that far by mere populism and charlatanism may seem daft, but in that time, you didn't have background checks.

I see bug bounty programs as just being another example of InfoSec charlatanism.

I am uncharitable because it's charlatanism and seems to be gaining traction - in the same vein as antivaxxers.

Peter Van Roy is teaching all these out of the same programming language, and there's no charlatanism implied in choosing one technique over the other.

There is plenty of charlatanism in the world of technical analysis, just as there is in the world of fundamental analysis.

I am not a fan of tech people or SV at all...it is a hotbed of charlatanism...but that is the point of capitalism, that is why we don't like in wood houses anymore.

There is a risk of charlatanism but I don't like to fault the results when there are 10 other billionaires trying to play at this level and it is not obvious they are succeeding.

But I still say that using the word "thinking" for non-macro-scale biomechanical processes is charlatanism.

At its best Lacan's works is an interesting form of literature, at it's worse it's indistinguishable from pseudo-science and charlatanism.

"Do some research and find the experts for yourself" is also how people get sucked into a lot of charlatanism re: health, fringe economic ideas, climate change denialism, etc. etc. etc.

How could a society possibly function if it doesn't elevate competence above incompetence and expertise above charlatanism?

I agree that the charlatanism tends to fail quicker in the scientific and technical fields--you need a Stalin behind you to get as far as Lysenko did, but fad upon fad in the humanities has a long run in the academy.

Charlatanism definitions

noun

the dishonesty of a charlatan

See also: quackery