Lack of trust in government brings charlatans to power, further reducing trust in government and widening the path to power for future charlatans.
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They both had a lot of contempt for UFO charlatans.
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But the flip side is it's also eliminated some charlatans.
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Woe to the charlatans who twist that to their own purposes.
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Carolina has reelected an impressive array of charlatans to the Senate.
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He went after the charlatans and the quacks and so forth.
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Booking the likes of the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, The Charlatans.
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It prefers charlatans and cranks, who are its kind of people.
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In my experience, the vast majority of M.P.s are not charlatans.
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They have carried charlatans to high office in Washington and London.
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Two vain, incompetent, mediocre charlatans are competing to become prime minister.
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"The people who sold these policies were charlatans and mountebanks," he said.
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Now, Neumann himself isn't very important; foolish charlatans are common in society.
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The original charlatans would babble on and on to mesmerize their audiences.
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Real charlatans don't agree to challenge matches publicly and invite the press along.
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Those who do so are grifters, con artists, hucksters, charlatans, hustlers or fraudsters.
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Proof that optimism need not only be the province of charlatans or naifs.
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It's not merely the lies of the charlatans who led the "Leave" campaign.
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This country has not been made great by charlatans, con artists and liars.
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Dangle the prospects of celebrity and riches, and plenty of charlatans rush forward.
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The dog rabies whispererPhoto: GettyMedical quacks and charlatans are sadly a dime a dozen.
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Unlike the self-promoters—the elected xenophobes and charlatans—these people do have courage.
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Even breeders sanctioned by these groups as experts can turn out to be charlatans.
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What the right wants are charlatans and cranks, in (conservative) Greg Mankiw's famous phrase.
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I look at this behavior from the outside and think: These religious leaders are charlatans.
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See for example Alex Jones, one of the most popular charlatans of the present age.
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This protects patients from charlatans and improves the proposals by adding FDA's expert input. 28500.
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For starters, too many charlatans in the conservative movement have made their Faustian deals with Trump.
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In short, we are always vulnerable to economic charlatans using one-sided frameworks to analyze trade.
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The American left wasn't always so hapless when it came to responding to charlatans like Spencer.
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Occultists were believers and charlatans capitalized on it, but artists for the most part have eschewed it.
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The men and women who run them have to be charlatans, because they are storytellers justifying losses.
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Last year Erdogan called him a "coup lover" and described columnists at his media business as charlatans.
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So there's a lot of space for charlatans to come in with all sorts of crazy things.
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Trade people tended to consider international macro people semi-charlatans, doing ad hoc stuff devoid of rigor.
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To the informed, they were charlatans who hadn't adequately communicated to the public what their work truly meant.
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I know a lot of charlatans prey on human suffering and swim in the waters of addiction cures.
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The Better Deal is a first step in reclaiming the mantle of economic populism from charlatans like Trump.
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So whether he was observing Englishmen, Sikhs or Zulus, he recognised fools, heroes and charlatans for what they were.
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It could mean exposing every American to greater risks from another financial crisis and to abuses from financial charlatans.
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"I suspect that Spare was serious and Crowley a charlatan, and Spare had no time for charlatans," says Wynd.
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Just like the rest of the world, there are charlatans there who do not care about your well-being.
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As we move to the debates, let's remember that to expose charlatans is not partisanship, but simply good journalism.
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"The number of charlatans has increased, and there's a lot more chicanery associated with this whole phenomenon," he said.
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It prefers hacks and propagandists, the people Mankiw famously called "charlatans and cranks," whose only idea is tax cuts.
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It prefers hacks and propagandists, the people Mankiw famously called "charlatans and cranks," whose only idea is tax cuts.
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We become less skeptical and more susceptible to charlatans who are trying to deliver us information that we'll agree with.
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In reality, most people "do" science vicariously—by reading about new discoveries and having faith that the discoverers aren't charlatans.
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" Since the Sony hack, the industry has gotten better, in part because "the charlatans have been wrong again and again.
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The remaining ninety-eight per cent is left dumbfounded, and world religions crumble amid a surge of cults and charlatans.
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And medicine, like any other profession, has its charlatans and jerks, and is certainly being perverted by the bean counters.
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But as you begin this spiritual journey, you'll also need to brush up on psychic protection and beware of charlatans.
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"If everything and everyone is portrayed negatively, there's a levelling effect that opens the door to charlatans," wrote Mr Patterson.
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This has made it easy prey for charlatans like Paul Ryan, who pretended to be serious about his fiscal principles.
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But he cast suggestions on social media that he was in a battle with Erdogan as the work of "charlatans".
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The Europe spokesman for Scotland's ruling nationalists said he "hit the nail on the head" in deriding "charlatans and chancers".
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This was meant to bolster a physician's scientific credibility at a time when many practising healers were quacks, charlatans and frauds.
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There are charlatans who take to extreme lengths the presumption of forgiveness that is central to their faith's structure and appeal.
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It has shown that his campaign had several liars and charlatans, greedy for a favour from any hand, at the helm.
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Concerned about protecting investors from charlatans, bad ideas and their own poor judgment, the agency spent years drafting its proposed rules.
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This is an enormous opportunity but, like any new financial opportunity, the schemers and crooked charlatans are having a field day.
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"Principled conservatives will have to go elsewhere even as the charlatans heckle them as helping Hillary Clinton," he wrote early Wednesday.
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Over the years, I saw countless specialists and countless charlatans, took many cocktails of medication, and underwent dozens of medical procedures.
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And as long as companies like Google allow these outrage-peddling charlatans to profit from it, the country will be worse off.
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He knew the score, and with a single question reduced the whole industry to a pack of charlatans, which is exactly right.
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Envy is something that exists in our hearts, not in the minds of charlatans: We have to look there for the answers.
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It's the times we're living in that make CHARLATANS ruefully relevant and it makes a wonderful insult, really rolls off the tongue.
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"Regulation can be a pain in the neck generally, but we don't want a lot of charlatans operating in insurance," he added.
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Democrats see him as a decent, honest, principled man at a time when our politics seems dominated by charlatans and partisan hacks.
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But I think we have also forgotten that charlatans exist, or that they exist for us, and not just for other people.
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"Generous donors are being ripped off and desperate patients and families are being exploited by charlatans, quacks and dubious providers," he said.
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If we choose, instead, to retreat into fantasy, we will get the world we deserve—one in which charlatans and demagogues hold sway.
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The Harvard economist Greg Mankiw coined the phrase "charlatans and cranks" specifically to describe people who claim that tax cuts pay for themselves.
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The race-baiters and the charlatans — those who profit from the dishonest promotion of "grievances" — maintain that our system of justice is racist.
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My last threads of hope frayed and unraveled as video upon video of baby-faced charlatans instructed me to "warm up" my microphone.
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But even if the Cambridge execs are charlatans, that doesn't resolve questions about the company's possible sharing of data with state-connected Russian interests.
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I think that misconception leads to a lot of people to thinking that witches are fakes just out to get your money or charlatans.
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But you're lacking meaning in life, while charlatans tell you they have the answer, whether it be the religious right or the bogus left.
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Many of the aggrieved now see the elites, who offered to expedite progress while expanding their own power and wealth, as self-serving charlatans.
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They're controversial, though, as many evangelicals from other traditions often see them as charlatans who claim suspicious amounts of spiritual power for personal gain.
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Years living and working in Chicago have exposed me to that city's extensive history of graft and political charlatans; topping that is a tall order.
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Yet when Dr Asghar and his team catch charlatans and seal their premises, the crowds that gather to watch are not grateful for their deliverance.
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"We have to stop letting these guys use the divisions that exist in the country as charlatans always do to divide the country," Biden said.
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"We have to stop letting these guys use the divisions that exist in the country, as charlatans always do, to divide the country," Biden said.
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And it turns out that those who have proven most capable of this come from a universe of charlatans: fake news purveyors, propagandists, and scammers.
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"And look what happens — like most charlatans throughout time, who seek to aggrandize themselves and consolidate their power, by always blaming the other," he continued.
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Their goal was to inject rigor into the transmission of fighting arts, and to establish an accredited group of martial arts instructors—no charlatans accepted.
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For those seeking a magician's touch, Frater MC warns that in the community there exists a massive amounts of charlatans out solely to take people's money.
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For most people, fantasies and myths are more compelling and easier to comprehend, especially if they are conveyed by charismatic charlatans and demagogues using deceptive technologies.
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The Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow has called the leaders of the Ukrainian Church charlatans and schismatics, and President Vladimir Putin has warned of possible bloodshed.
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Both interviewee and filmmaker seem oddly fascinated by this possibility, as if charlatans who drink their own Kool-Aid were a novel feature of American life.
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Absolutely. There are people out there who are probably complete charlatans just trying to grandstand their way into some sort of financial benefit or social benefit.
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My parents, aunts and uncles came to see pirs as backward, or un-Islamic, or charlatans eager to make a quick buck off exorcisms and amulets.
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But a new report published Wednesday in the BMJ suggests that desperate people are often using this money to pursue dubious, possibly dangerous treatments from unscrupulous charlatans.
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He's sort of a deity and it's sort of a charlatan and sort of a magician in the ways that real magicians are both magical and charlatans.
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"We have a population that is defenseless when it comes to health care, and that opens the door to all kinds of charlatans," he said on Friday.
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In May, Dogan was suspended from state tenders after Erdogan accused its head, Aydin Dogan, of being a "coup lover" and described its media columnists as "charlatans".
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It begs an obvious question of who is more irresponsible: The man standing athwart history screaming stop, or the charlatans cutting his legs out from under him?
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The country has reacted with fury and shame to revelations that indicate that top leaders have been in thrall to a family of religious charlatans for decades.
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The news media must separate in the public mind responsible journalism from recklessly inaccurate and purposely false information disguised as news for profit or influence by charlatans.
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So in economics, a news organization trying to represent conservative thought either has to publish people with no constituency or go with the charlatans who actually matter.
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Although the hallmarks of Ponzis and pyramids existed long before Charles Ponzi's ran his scheme in 2100s Boston, financial charlatans have become even more brazen in recent decades.
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Colbert, who never shies away from taking on charlatans, wasn't kind towards Goop's latest endeavor, the "In Goop Health" wellness summit held earlier this month in Los Angeles.
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One laughed and said that the Batumi deal reminded him of "The Producers," the Mel Brooks movie about two charlatans who create a horrible musical designed to fail.
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They're people who even center-right professionals consider charlatans and cranks; they make a living by pretending to do actual economics — often incompetently — but are actually just propagandists.
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Women are vulnerable to the exclusions of male privilege because they are repeatedly on the verge of being exposed as unauthorized agents, charlatans making fraudulent claims to power.
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His victory in 2016 was a charlatan's ascent, and his presidency has served to sustain distrust in government — fuel, in one sense, for the continued success of charlatans.
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They are our system's most durable and accountable political institutions and they comprise its first and most important line of defense against political demagogues and conscience-free charlatans.
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Travel with us into the past and meet some of the charlatans who claimed to see the future, when all they were really looking at was a fast buck.
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Political figures and tech luminaries alike are castigating YouTube for not doing enough to rein in the crooks, crackpots, racists, Russian agents and charlatans who call the platform home.
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" • "Political figures and tech luminaries alike are castigating YouTube for not doing enough to rein in the crooks, crackpots, racists, Russian agents and charlatans who call the platform home.
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" Stevens added that people typically associated "fake news" with politics but warned that "people's natural concern for their health … makes this particularly fertile ground for quacks, charlatans and cranks.
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Opinion Columnist To see them together in New York, the two charlatans, after all their nationalist-revival shenanigans, encountering the quiet force of the law was an exquisite thing.
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If 2018 was the year of charlatans scamming each other out of their money, 2020 is the year of presidential candidates scamming us out of our limited, precious attention.
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"Aging has always been a target for charlatans and snake oil salemen," says John Newman, a geriatrics researcher at UC San Francisco and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
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I felt like setting something in a Silicon Valley present, though more in the back alleys of the industry, which have their share of complete charlatans, dubious military contractors, etc.
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She's tough, smart, driven, crazily accomplished, deeply protective of her people, and occasionally tripped up by her tendency towards secrecy (and a public easily swayed by shiny, loud-mouthed charlatans).
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So it stands to reason that a country of supersize celebrity and riches would have a surfeit of charlatans, including some who see even the White House as fair game.
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I'm pretty cynical about centrists and the propensity of the media to be taken in by charlatans, but I think this would probably be a bait and switch too far.
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The narrator of the most ambitious song, "Maggie I've Been Searching for Our Son," is looking for a savior but finds only charlatans and bullies in a land of mass shootings.
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The circus acts and charlatans have taken over, in the form of Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg, and the sensible people have been locked up in the Tower of London.
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I'm sure there are tons of charlatans out there, but the community that I was able to get into in my journalism, I was very impressed by their seriousness and professionalism.
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"I am deeply offended that these charlatans are portraying us as fraudsters scamming the country and the south," Attilio Fontana, the League chief in the rich Lombardy region, said on Saturday.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio recently upset some homeless people and advocates with off-the-cuff remarks that included calling people begging for money on the street charlatans pretending to be homeless.
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"I feel that the kind of stereotypical view often is, oh, these people are just a bunch of charlatans, and it's all fake, and they're just trying to get money," Taggart said.
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The Charlatans are doing an ambitious gig livestream next month, have an app full of your past music, and both you and the band always have something to say on social media.
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From City Guides to cookbooks, we're always looking out for our readers and tapping into our network of hospitality humans to help steer you in the right direction and away from charlatans.
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With economic opportunities stunted, everyone will suffer for Leave voters wrongly blaming hard-working, taxpaying European migrants for everything they dislike about modern Britain and wrongly trusting economic charlatans like Mr. Gove.
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Ms. Konnikova's central contention is that practically all of us — prosperous or penniless, quick-witted or dull — are susceptible to charlatans, for the simple reason that we possess a basic instinct to trust.
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In 1965, Jefferson Airplane put on one of three dance concerts in San Francisco that featured bands such as the Charlatans, the Great Society, and others—collectively called A Tribute to Dr. Strange.
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If abortion is outlawed, it will not just magically go away; once again, it will be relegated to medical charlatans with filthy tools performing the procedures, and countless women and girls may die.
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As has been his norm, Biden did not refer to the president by name, making thinly veiled comments instead about the "charlatans" who sow divisions between people of different ethnic and religious groups.
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Every international crisis generates more than its fair share of insta-experts, charlatans, and Wikipedia summarizers, so it's probably best for political pundits to try to stick to subjects we're genuinely knowledgeable about.
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Certain types — charlatans, wastrels and freeloaders, many of them Indian — accumulate troublingly, as does the kind of servant who pines for the good old days when they wore white gloves to serve dinner.
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"We want to do this by helping to create the right habits, making it accessible, social and enjoyable," he tells me, whilst bemoaning the number of charlatans that currently exist in the fitness space.
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" Mr. Canaday had long made clear that he thought excuses often needed to be made in the case of, for example, Abstract Expressionists, a great number of whom he saw as "charlatans" and "freaks.
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That someone with such a rare and fantastic opportunity would walk away from it to promote nonsense of charlatans is staggering, and speaks for the strange psychological desperation in so many of Jacobsen's subjects.
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This gets back to the fundamental problem, which is that there are always going to be charlatans and people trying to push bad forensics and make themselves out to be experts when they're not.
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" American values "being shredded," Biden warns During his speech at Chatham House, Biden warned of the forces he believes are threatening democracies, citing "demagogues and the charlatans" who "prey on people's fears, stoking prejudices.
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I'm a firm believer that love doesn't know color, religion, or creed, and I give a side eye to charlatans like Dr. Umar Jackson who insist you should never marry a person of another race.
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As the Guardian highlighted, the study determined that many men who undergo penis enlargement are falling victim of "charlatans," and there is very little evidence showing any of these procedures lead to the desired results.
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To that generalized critique, some would add that if an individual found a way to beat the market, the investor would not share it, which uncomfortably implies that all who give investment advice are charlatans.
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Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement that the opposition-run Civil Defence group which made the allegations was made up of "charlatans" who could not be regarded as objective sources of reliable information.
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A successful fraud — even if it's ultimately uncovered — requires discipline, hard work and talent, and it's hard not to feel at least a grudging respect for charlatans who fool the public and especially the experts.
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Like Trump, she also has a history of encouraging charlatans who traffic in quack ideas, as she has given a platform to dubious figures like Dr. Oz, a purveyor of pseudoscience, and vaccine denier Jenny McCarthy.
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Some said they were technically empaths but identified as other things—starseeds, indigo children, lightworkers— and through demonstrations of power, we suspected that charlatans were everywhere and empath "strength" was, like everything else—a sliding scale.
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Illustration: Chelsea Beck (Gizmodo)Over the last year, "fake news" has gone from being a niche concern that charlatans exploited for profit, to a code red existential threat to the fabric of society—or something in between.
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And Trump voters are seemingly excited to slurp up every last drop of that poison with nary a moment's reflection on what the charlatans at the network have been selling for the past decade and a half.
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Tim Burgess, lead singer of The Charlatans and head of indie label O Genesis, is due to publish his second book—a graphic "vinyl adventure"—and he's brought in some interesting names to help him write it.
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Mr. Trump's brain trust, such as it is, is composed of hard-line, right-wing supply-siders — whom even Republican economists have called "charlatans and cranks" — for whom low taxes on the rich are the overwhelming priority.
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They became the Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell of the age, swiftly turning the Plaza into a magnet not only for socialites but for movie stars, tycoons and world leaders, with a brisk trade in cosmopolitan charlatans.
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But, as has become so painfully obvious with the historical trade in illegal drugs, the expanding market in kambo—a useful alternative treatment for some—is better off properly regulated than outlawed altogether and left open to charlatans.
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But the most significant values that India and the United States share today are those of Mr. Trump and Mr. Modi — charlatans who succeed, initially, but then, failing abjectly at everything, retreat into resentful lies and bellicose bluster.
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Indeed two funds just launched which are pitching investments in companies that have exposure to cryptocurrency (I'm not linking to them because at this point, there're far too many charlatans that have jumped on the crypto — and blockchain — bandwagon).
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But he also knows rallying the base around impossible solutions that they wish were possible is an age old tactic employed by conservative charlatans; a tactic, by the way, that is offensive to everything President Ronald Reagan stood for.
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In recent years, the rise of explicitly racist movements across the Western world, combined with the exploitation of huge online platforms by authoritarian foreign actors, fake news disseminators, and malevolent charlatans like Alex Jones, has shaped the debate over free speech.
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The Germans had no patience for charlatans, creating a clear lexical distinction between actual Masters and those who performed fighting as part of theater, the leichmeistrere (a snide reference to a dance-master) and the klopffechter, which translates to clown fighter.
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" He pointed to research by ICO advisory firm Satis Group, which said 81 percent of them were, as Roubini put it in a column published earlier Thursday, "created by con artists, charlatans, and swindlers looking to take your money and run.
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I've heard journalists suggest that Disrupted may have basically made us all un-hireable outside of journalism; nobody wants to bring in the cranky skeptic who may end up writing a book on what a bunch of charlatans they all are.
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Only charlatans and cranks have endorsed Mr. Trump, but only a handful have risen to the occasion and been willing to say that if keeping him out of the White House is important, you need to vote for Mrs. Clinton.
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The distribution mechanics, rules and terms of service of Facebook's platform — and the rest of social media — are no match for professional propagandists, trolls, charlatans, political operatives and hostile foreign actors looking to sow division and blur the lines of reality.
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In 1937, a journalist named Grete De Francesco published a volume called "Die Macht des Charlatans," or "The Power of the Charlatan," a history of the quacks and mountebanks that roamed Europe in the Middle Ages and early modern period.
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In 2020, it can feel like lying is the norm: Witness the sad state of political spin, the swell of grifters, of charlatans and snake-oil salesmen, pricey "experts" shilling New Age treatments and odd offerings to the Church of Wellness.
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This means they attract charlatans, lunatics, frauds, and false prophets, and furious battles are waged over doctrinal hairsplitting; but it also means they inspire intransigent beliefs which can, and do, unify many thousands of wildly different people across continents and time zones.
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But her writing — springing from the richest veins of world culture and enraptured with epiphanies of beauty — will remain as a rebuke to the lies, violence, greed, and coarseness of the charlatans, hypocrites, quislings, and fools now luxuriating in their orgiastic power-grab.
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Burgess runs his own label, O Genesis Recordings, with partner Nik Void of Factory Floor among others, constantly shares witticisms on social media, and is gearing up for an "all over the world" livestream of The Charlatans' Northwich hometown gig in May.
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It is the notion that their president has been in thrall for decades to a family of religious charlatans — a shameful throwback, in their view, to ancient stories of Korean kings and queens brought to ruin by deceitful monks or fortunetelling shamans.
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Seattle (CNN)Delayed from hitting the presidential campaign trail, President Barack Obama previewed his 2016 stump speech Friday for an incumbent governor instead, using a fundraiser here to hit Republicans for dividing the country and lambasting "charlatans" who seek personal gain from exploiting fears.
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He was true blue, one of a kind, and did it all his own... Posted by Dan Hicks on Saturday, February 6, 2016 Hicks, a Little Rock, Arkansas native, kicked off his career in the 63s as a drummer for the rock band The Charlatans.
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"The appeal to populism and nationalism is a siren song, a way for charlatans to aggrandize their power, raise themselves up, break down those mechanisms that are designed within our Constitution and internationally to limit the abuse of power and destabilize the world," Biden said.
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It exposes the darker underside of the wellness industry, the damaging language we use to discuss cancer, the unscrupulous charlatans who exploit terminally ill patients for financial gain, and the journalistic climate that allowed Gibson's lies to go unchallenged for such a long time.
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Participating in that protest, staged by the Center for Political Beauty, a German artist collective, she said that because European countries had curtailed asylum, "thousands faced the choice between the inevitable death of war and possible death at sea in unsafe ships, guided by charlatans."
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Most express concern about the longterm impact of the court decision, with professional gambler Bill "Krack" Krackomberger warning that legalized betting will bring "snake-oil salesmen and charlatans coming out of the woodwork," a point underscored by radio and TV ads for can't-miss handicappers.
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And herein lies the cognitive dissonance that confronts anyone trying to make sense of the blockchain: the potential power of this would-be revolution is being actively undercut by the crowd it is attracting, a veritable goon squad of charlatans, false prophets and mercenaries.
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Gigantic Study of Fake News Online Finds the Enemy Is HumanityIllustration: Chelsea Beck (Gizmodo)Over the last year, "fake news" has gone from being a niche concern that charlatans exploited for profit, to a code red existential threat to the fabric of society—or something in between.
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"When charlatans make false claims to the Committee — claims that may earn them short-term media exposure and financial gain, but which hinder the Committee's ability to do its job — there should be consequences," Grassley wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
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With a music career spanning 30 years—thriving in the face of Madchester's withdrawal, Britpop bursting, and now NME's print edition folding—UK alternative veterans The Charlatans and frontman Tim Burgess just might outlive us all (or at least be keen enough to tweet through the end of days).
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The planks of Trumpism are clear—the better banning of Muslims, the improved scapegoating of Latinos, the endorsement of racist conspiracy, the denialism of science, the cheering of economic charlatans, the urging on of barbarian cops and barbarian bosses, the cheering of torture, and the condemnation of whole countries.
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I like to think that my tolerance for charlatans of the mind is low, but when it comes to the lotion I pat on my cheeks and the grease I smear on my legs, I'll consider anything — as impressionable as a passive, pseudoscience-prone young woman in a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
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"Contrary to the futurists claiming that radical life extension or immortality is at hand—a claim that has been made for most of the last two thousand years from alchemists to modern day anti-aging charlatans—it's not likely we're going to live much longer than the longest lived among us," he said.
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I suppose there have always been people of low character in elected office -- charlatans who prey on our fears and feed on their own sense of personal grievance or glory -- but in that malevolent effort they cast aspersions on the vast majority of elected officials who truly just want to do right by their country.
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"We don't have time for charlatans and we don't have time for bigotry and we didn't have time for film-flam and we don't have the luxury of just popping off and saying whatever comes to the tops of our heads," Obama said during the Friday evening event, held for 3,000 supporters of Washington State Gov.
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Superstore's Mark McKinney, who co-created the series years after his time on Kids In The Hall and Saturday Night Live, plays a hapless suit who is repeatedly sucked in by a series of fast-talking charlatans and cynics — including an intensely quotable Colm Feore as the "visionary" head of a New Age marketing firm named Froghammer that's a spiritual predecessor to so many absurd fictional startups.
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I remember listening to Oasis, Black Grape, The Charlatans and The Verve on the way to matches and also wearing brands like Stone Island, Henri Lloyd and CP Company from a really young age – at the time I didn't really think anything of it, but I was wearing a £100 Stone Island sweatshirt to school and none of my mates really knew what it was.
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A clear line can be drawn from the Swift Boat Veterans' early experiments in ratfuckery to the birtherism of the Obama era; the rampant, wild-eyed treatment of Hillary Clinton at the hands of charlatans like Blood Feud author Ed Klein; the gonzo antics of James O'Keefe; the media takeover of right-wing propagandists at the Sinclair Broadcast Group, right to President Trump's own two-bit criminal empire.
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When it comes to medical pseudoscience, I think people get duped because charlatans use medical terminology and science-y sounding words that the average person cannot recognize as gobbledegook; patients turn away from medicine when they are feeling hopeless, lost, and frustrated with the medical system (there is research showing a correlation between cancer patients feeling hopeless and out of control and the embrace of alternative cancer therapies); and medicine does not (yet) deal well with hard to explain, or frankly inexplicable, medical conditions.
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During her speech, which was largely focused on the media climate under President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, she cited a professor specializing in the relationship between the press and the president to argue that the media's "false equivalency" in its coverage of the 2016 election was "corrosive" and had a "leveling effect that opens the door to charlatans," according to Deb.
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