But Lysenko's charlatanism was well known even among Stalin's courtiers.
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In Mexico, witchcraft, or "charlatanism," is illegal, though folk magic is widely practiced there.
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Maybe. There's plenty of charlatanism in the bar world—charming sometimes, stupid at others.
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He sold his shamelessness as fearlessness and his charlatanism as charisma, and people believed.
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In 1992 he was jailed for 12 days on charges of embezzlement and charlatanism, all later dropped.
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I think it created a kind of a flimsy Charlatanism, a séance-y fraudulence but one built around real hauntings.
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"He sold his shamelessness as fearlessness and his charlatanism as charisma, and people believed," writes Stephens of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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For others, it is little more than charlatanism, with its successes attributed to the placebo effect and the odd folk remedy.
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The me-first charlatanism of 2018 portends, I told him, a new manner of post-scam American value that was creeping into our national vernacular: the finesse.
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Writing under the name Samri Frikell, he declared in his book Spirit Mediums Exposed (1930): I am the foe of fakery, of charlatanism, of hoodwinkers, of wonder-mongers, of miracle pretenders — of BUNK.
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"As with all charlatanism, it gives the claim that it cures everything," Professor Martin Dyer, a cancer specialist at the University of Leicester in the UK, tells me the day after my visit to Alchemy.
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Terry Iacuzzo, a longtime Little Italy clairvoyant and author who also teaches at the upscale Omega Institute, said she didn't know Keano, but she wanted to draw a bright line between her work and what she called the déclassé charlatanism of the storefronts.
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In the Central African Republic, one can be executed for charlatanism.
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The emperor's favor may have offered him protection, when charges were later laid against him of charlatanism, illegal medicine, false promises of cure and religious imposture.
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The unbecomingness and the charlatanism of an author's going around the country reading from the proofs of a book he is about to publish are degrading to literature.
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Critics argue that von Däniken misrepresented data, that many of his claims were unfounded, and that none of his core claims have been validated."Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods?: Science or Charlatanism?"; Robert Sheaffer.
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Opera, February 1983, Vol.34, No.2, p149. In 1975 a critic reviewing Donizettis's L'elisir d'amore commented that "broad humour is quite foreign to Bacquier's nature ... his doctor [Dulcamara] is a serious Archie Rice type, no caricature but a real man weighed down by his own charlatanism and basically sad that mankind is so gullible".Pitt, Charles.
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Reports emerged in summer 2018 of a therapist claiming to be able to "cure" homosexuality through homoeopathy. He was promptly fired, and an investigation was opened with the Geneva Ministry of Health. According to the Ministry, believing that homosexuality is an illness is sufficient enough to open an investigation. The Association des Médecins du Canton de Genève describes conversion therapy as a form of charlatanism.
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The hieromonk was at first encouraged by his monastic superiors, but the Imperial Russian government was alarmed by the political implications and the spread of unorthodox practice, including glossolalia. Officials brought in psychiatrists to investigate the "Balta psychosis"; their reports had it that Inochentism was either an issue of poor nutrition and lack of education (V. S. Yakovenko) or just charlatanism from its leaders (A. D. Kotsovsky).
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The UCKG has frequently been accused of illegal activities, including money laundering, charlatanism,"Prosperity" in the 1990s: Ethnography of the work commitment between worshippers and God in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Scielo and witchcraft. A book by ex-pastor Mario Justino reported a system of goals for the pastors, with those who collect more money receiving awards such as bigger houses, better cars, and holidays. Justino was ordered to pay restitution to the church for defamation and to issue a public apology for making a false report In English, with attachments in Portuguese. The UCKG has also been accused of extracting money from its often poor congregants and using said money to enrich church leaders rather than assisting the needy."Ex- Member Bids Farewell To 60G – And Her Faith", New York Post, 23 July 2000, posted at Freedom of Mind Accusations of charlatanism are the most frequent.
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The figures are many. The > canvas will immediately attracts to itself for what is spontaneous, simple, > large, well thought out. ... nor caricature, nor ostentation, nor > charlatanism, nor adherence to the in voices that call him to join the > crowd, nor looking for cheap tricks, nothing theatrical: the natural > observed calmly, without fever and without dismay, by a man sure of himself. > He did not give his picture a pompous title, bit simply called it: Studio > dal Vero.
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It has also been accused of cult-like illegal activities and corruption, including money laundering, charlatanism, and witchcraft, as well as intolerance towards other religions. There have also been accusations that the church extracts money from poor members for the benefit of its leaders. In 2000, a London-based UCKG pastor arranged an exorcism which resulted in the death of a child and the conviction of her guardians of murder. The UCKG has been subject to bans in several African countries.
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Tarsis denounces Soviet psychiatry as pseudo-science and charlatanism. Among all the victims of Soviet psychiatry, Tarsis was the sole exception in the sense that he did not emphasised the 'injustice' of confining 'sane dissidents' to psychiatric hospitals and did not thereby imply that the psychiatric confinement of 'insane patients' was proper and just. In 1966, Tarsis was permitted to emigrate to the West, and was soon deprived of his Soviet citizenship. He lectured at the Leicester University and Gettysburg College.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages were maligned in the press for charlatanism, clerical swindles to extract donations, and distraction of people from socially useful work. One of the most vicious examples of these was written by a woman named Trubnikova entitled 'Hysteria on the March' that described a pilgrimage to a spring in the village of in the diocese of Kirov, where there was supposedly an apparition of St. Nicholas centuries earlier. Trubnikova claimed that she disguised herself as a pilgrim and went with them.
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Worship service at Cathedral of Faith in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1989, the UCKG expanded to Portugal. The church's style of proselytism was aggressive, and they were accused of charlatanism and commercial interests that put into question their claims to be a religious organisation. During the 1990s, the UCKG were very visible and energetic, attacked the Catholic Church, and amassed contributions sufficient to build a "gigantic" temple in Porto. In 1995, a scandal ensued after the attempted purchase of the well-known theatre Coliseu do Porto to transform it into a UCKG temple.
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Rajshekhar Basu (1880–1960) was the best-known writer of satiric short story in Bengali literature. He mocked the charlatanism and vileness of various classes of the Bengali society in his stories written under the pseudonym "Parashuram". His major works include: Gaddalika (1924), Kajjwali (1927), Hanumaner Swapna (1937), Gamanush Jatir Katha (1945), Dhusturimaya Ityadi Galpa (1952), Krishnakali Ittadi Galpa (1953), Niltara Ittadi Galpa (1956), Anandibai Ittadi Galpa (1958) and Chamatkumari Ittadi Galpa (1959). He received the Rabindra Puraskar, the highest literary award of Paschimbanga in 1955 for Krishnakali Ityadi Galpa.
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He documented that the disorder was a specific anatomo-clinic entity that was different from encephalitis and apoplexy. His findings were harshly criticised by followers of Broussais' teachings on physiological medicine, who claimed that brain softenings were the result of an inflammation process, and therefore should be depicted as encephalitis. He also did extensive research of animal magnetism and somnambulism, and wrote a treatise on charlatanism for his graduate thesis. Rostan performed early studies on the classification of body types, using descriptive terms such as respiratory-cerebral, muscular and digestive in his analysis.
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It constituted a biting satire on the charlatanism and bombast of the popular preaching friars of the day. This is a novel very low in action, in which two elements are combined in the most unusual way: a satirical and burlesque narrative fiction about bad preachers, who still followed the pompous and pedantic style of the Gongoran Baroque preachers, and a didactic treatise of sacred oratory. In this combination the author also intersperses various stories and jokes., the influence of the picaresque novel and Cervantes style are seen in this work.
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Brock, 2008. The medical board revoked his license, stating that Brinkley "has performed an organized charlatanism ... quite beyond the invention of the humble mountebank". Six months after losing his medical license, the Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his station's broadcasting license, finding that Brinkley's broadcasts were mostly advertising, which violated international treaties, that he broadcast obscene material, and that his Medical Question Box series was "contrary to the public interest". He sued the commission, but the courts upheld the revocation and the case KFKB Broadcasting Association v.
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" Numerous reviewers commented on the homoerotic subtext of the film. Film Comment noted the bonding and repelling between the two men, "two edges of the split saber, play out in public and in private, in "audits" and intimate exchanges over Freddie's alcoholic concoctions". The Guardian saw "Quell's chaos and Dodd's charlatanism" locked "in a dance of death – erotic and homoerotic". Reviewers from The Daily Beast were struck by the way the film "deals with the not-so- latent homosexuality in Dodd", adding that, "Dodd seems to be sexually attracted to Quell's animalistic nature, e. g.
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Olms, Hildesheim u.a. 2002, , p. 147-148. In the summer of 1939 he was one of the 13 physicians of Vienna's University (7 professors and 6 private lecturers) who signed a protest letter against the suggested move of the A.M.A. from Vienna to London claiming "... that we the undersigned, know of not one case of persecution of a professor for his racial or religious adherence. ... It could rather be said that by the removal of certain influences a trend of charlatanism, which was beginning to damage the reputation of the Vienna medical clinics in the eyes of serious medical men, was eliminated".
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Chevalley de Rivaz published articles in medical journals on an influenza epidemic in Naples, the value of vaccination against smallpox, and the treatment of cholera and syphilis. In them he advocated for public health care and hygiene and on occasion railed against the charlatanism and unscrupulousness of some Neapolitan physicians. However, he was most widely known for his book on the mineral water springs and fumaroles of Ischia, Description des eaux minéro-thermales et des étuves de l'ile d'Ischia. First published in 1835 in both French and Italian, it went through 13 editions over the next 30 years.
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He was also the editor of the American Journal of Police Science, America's first scientific police journal. Colonel Goddard commanded the US Army Crime Laboratory in Japan for a number of years after World War II.Dr. James Edward Hamby, Colonel Calvin H. Goddard Award acceptance speech, June 29, 2006 Calvin Goddard brought professionalism, the use of the scientific method, and reliability to Forensic Firearm Identification, at a time when charlatanism was rampant in this field. His testimony in 1923 in the Frye case and others, paved the way for judicial acceptance of Firearms Identification.John Murdock, Calvin Goddard Award acceptance speech June 23, 2005.
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Professing direct descent on the > female line from this 'marriage' the same claimant equally fails to provide > any evidence, proper references or verifiable source documents for his > additional assertion of descent on the male line from not one, but both > daughters of Charlotte Stuart. Professor Lenman describes all of this as: > 'The industry of Stuart charlatanism'. Lafosse has also stated that he was "President of the European Council of Princes", following Archduke Otto of Austria's tenure in that position. Archduke Otto has said that he had never been president of any such body, or a member of any such body, and that, in fact, he had never heard of it.
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Slight as these sketches are, they show considerable dramatic talent and an Aristophanic wit. The characters are well drawn and the dialogue full of comic strength, the scenes knit together and the plot skillfully worked out. Moreover, Silva possessed a knowledge of stagecraft, and, if he had lived, he might have emancipated the drama in Portugal from its dependence on foreign writers; but the triple licence of the Palace, the Ordinary and the Inquisition, which a play required, crippled spontaneity and freedom. Even so, he showed some boldness in exposing types of the prevailing charlatanism and follies, though his liberty of speech is far less than that of Gil Vicente.
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He was the author of "Pine Ridge Papers," a series of satirical and witty treatises on charlatanism among medical practitioners. His contributions on surgery to magazines of both popular and medical character constitute a valuable addition to the literature of the profession. For many years he was a member of the editorial staff of the "New York Herald," directing his attention especially to the treatment of those subjects that fell within the sphere of his profession. He was the foremost advocate in his writings of the freedom of consultation between members of different legally recognized schools of medicine, and was largely instrumental in reconciling merely doctrinal differences in medical practice.
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They lost their office- cleaning business and home and had to declare bankruptcy, claiming that the church did not offer them any help in their time of need. "Holy Oil of Psalm 23, blessed in six destinations in Israel" as described above was still being used by the UCKG in 2012; it is praised and described as being distributed in London, UK, in the UCKG's UK Web site. In 1992, Bishop Macedo was prosecuted for tax evasion in the state of São Paulo and imprisoned for 11 days. "in 1992 Edir Macedo was imprisoned accused of charlatanism, quackery, and larceny by fraud" No charges against him were proved and the case was archived.
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Manoel de Mello began as a preacher in the National Evangelization Crusade, but quickly left it to form his own church after accusations of charlatanism. The BPC quickly became a staple in Sao Paulo religious life, even getting involved in politics (which most Pentecostal churches at that time left alone). By the 1980s, however, the church's influence had diminished greatly. The God Is Love church (IPDA) belongs to the second wave, with its founding in 1962 and use of the radio to reach large numbers of (mostly poor) Brazilians, but it precedes the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in its reclamation of Catholic rituals and its attacks on religious beliefs based in Afro-Brazilian traditions like umbanda.
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170 In 1403, Henry IV of England banned the practice of multiplying metals (although it was possible to buy a licence to attempt to make gold alchemically, and a number were granted by Henry VI and Edward IVD. Geoghegan, "A licence of Henry VI to practise Alchemy" Ambix, volume 6, 1957, pages 10–17). These critiques and regulations centered more around pseudo- alchemical charlatanism than the actual study of alchemy, which continued with an increasingly Christian tone. The 14th century saw the Christian imagery of death and resurrection employed in the alchemical texts of Petrus Bonus, John of Rupescissa, and in works written in the name of Raymond Lull and Arnold of Villanova.
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" Spiegel told a reporter in 1977 that he had used hypnosis to help 4,000 patients control obesity, phobias or addiction to cigarettes over the past ten years. Spiegel's work in the field of hypnosis has been credited with establishing the practice as a legitimate medical therapy. In 1976, the New York News wrote that Spiegel was "one of the people whose work over the past few decades has helped strip away the aura of charlatanism and make hypnosis a respectable medical tool." In 1981, the UPI ran a feature story on Spiegel's advocacy of hypnosis in which Spiegel was quoted as saying: > "The prevalent and wrong attitude in the practice of medicine is use a pill > or scalpel or a gadget for problem-solving.
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When Flexner researched his report, "modern" medicine faced vigorous competition from several quarters, including osteopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, electrotherapy, eclectic medicine, naturopathy and homeopathy. Flexner clearly doubted the scientific validity of all forms of medicine other than that based on scientific research, deeming any approach to medicine that did not advocate the use of treatments such as vaccines to prevent and cure illness as tantamount to quackery and charlatanism. Medical schools that offered training in various disciplines including electromagnetic field therapy, phototherapy, eclectic medicine, physiomedicalism, naturopathy, and homeopathy, were told either to drop these courses from their curriculum or lose their accreditation and underwriting support. A few schools resisted for a time, but eventually most complied with the Report or shut their doors.
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Next to the usage of tarot cards to divine for others by professional cartomancers, tarot is also used widely as a device for seeking personal advice and spiritual growth. Practitioners believe the simple-looking tarot cards can help the individual explore the depths and nodes of one’s spiritual path and discover a new realm of possibility for enrichment in regard to the inner self; whereas, professional tarot is seen by some as charlatanism. People who use the tarot for personal divination seek insight on topics ranging widely from health or economic issues to what they believe would be best for them spiritually. Thus, the way practitioners use the cards in regard to such personal inquiries is subject to a variety of personal beliefs.
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Future president Andrew Johnson from Tennessee was one of several congressmen fiercely opposed to the bill Senate No. 271 ran into numerous obstacles in the House. Then Tennessee representative and future president Andrew Johnson was one of many vociferous opponents of the proposal to debase silver, calling the idea of Congress fixing the value of currency an exercise in the "merest quackery--the veriest charlatanism". Additionally, the bill was encumbered by numerous House amendments led by a cadre of congressmen who wished to see the United States switch entirely to the gold standard. The most important amendment, authored by Representative Cyrus Dunham, would have removed legal tender status from any new silver coins in private transactions, so as to eliminate silver as a medium of exchange.
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Individuals in ward No. 7 are not cured, but persistently maimed; the hospital is a jail and the doctors are gaolers and police spies. Most doctors know nothing about psychiatry, but make diagnoses arbitrarily and give all patients the same medication — an algogenic injection or the anti-psychotic drug Aminazin known in the USA under trade name Thorazine. Tarsis denounces Soviet psychiatry as pseudo-science and charlatanism and writes that, firstly, it has pretenses of curing the sickness of men's souls, but denies the existence of the soul; secondly, since there is no satisfactory definition of mental health, there can be no acceptable definition of mental disease in Soviet society. In 1966, Tarsis was permitted to emigrate to the West, and was soon deprived of his Soviet citizenship.
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Even if a > psychic doesn't use a private detective or have immediate access to driver's > license records and such, there is still a very powerful technique that will > allow the psychic to convince people that the psychic knows all about them, > their problems, and their deep personal secrets, fears, and desires. The > technique is called cold reading and is probably as old as charlatanism > itself... If John Edward (or any of the other self-proclaimed speakers with > the dead) really could communicate with the dead, it would be a trivial > matter to prove it. All that would be necessary would be for him to contact > any of the thousands of missing persons who are presumed dead—famous (e.g., > Jimmy Hoffa, Judge Crater) or otherwise—and correctly report where the body > is.
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Olavo strongly criticizes several figures who occupy a prominent place in the history of the sciences, such as Isaac Newton, and Giordano Bruno, who according to him "did not make any discoveries... He did not even study modern sciences, physics, astronomy, biology or mathematics, he was not condemned for defending scientific theories, but for practicing witchcraft, which at the time was a crime".The Garden of Afflictions, Chap. VI, §16–17 [Chapter in English]. The criticism extends to Galileo, of whom he writes: > A background of charlatanism appears to have already been introduced into > physics by Galileo, when he proclaimed that he had overturned the notions of > ancient science, according to which an object not propelled by an external > force stands still—an illusion of the senses, he said.
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Antecedently, he was an austere vocal critic of indigenous practices that placed the wellbeing of native communities in peril and easy prey to the quackery of guileful practitioners—he worked towards getting those charlatanism practices extirpated. Moreover, he advocated for regulating native ethno-medicinal practices and outlawing those that were insanitary or insalubrious through erudition programs tailored to specific native communities’ socioculturalism. Congruently, he encouraged a scientific approach to traditional medicinal modalities, vis-à-vis, enacting of quality control criteria such as dosage guidelines in conjunction with promoting proven evidence-based time-tested and outcome-driven ethno-medicine. He presciently cognized that this could only be achieved through colorable scientifically modeled studies to authenticate the safety and efficacies of indigenous healing methods akin to the European or westernized medicine.
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Religion academic and writer David C. Lane claims that in the fall of 1983, after he called Hinkins, who at that time he considered to be a friend, to get his response to the allegations of plagiarism, sexual manipulation, and charlatanism that had been raised by other friends, he was subjected to a series of threats, including several made against his life and the lives of his friends/informants. His home was subsequently ransacked and a number of his research files were stolen. He claims that documentary evidence implicates John-Roger with the robbery, as well as with implementing a smear campaign including threats against Lane and other of his critics. This included setting up a front organization called the "Coalition for Civil and Spiritual Rights", an act which was eventually traced directly back to Hinkins.
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Several other leading Iranists have criticised both Adamiyat's methods and his biases. Abbas Amanat noted that he 'is not free from some of the biases and misinterpretations of which he accuses others' and that his dichotomous portrayal of protagonists and antagonists 'give[s] his work a Manichean flavour appealing to readers in search of easy answers to complex historical problems'.Abbas Amanat, 'The Study of history in post- revolutionary Iran: Nostalgia, or historical awareness?', Iranian Studies 22.4 (December 1989), 10–11 (). Amanat also rejected Adamiyat's clear bias towards both the West and towards Iranian minorities: :Moreover, in spite of his unacknowledged use of Western studies Adamiyat dismisses them all as ‘Western rubbish’ (bunjul-i farangī). In a characteristically caustic tone he accuses western specialists of fabrication, charlatanism, being in the service of political powers, and entertaining ‘Jewish evil designs’ (aghrāḍ-i yahūdīgarī).Ibid.
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