crackpot

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Fabled Southern heritage has devolved into crackpot eccentricity, but that only deepens Louise’s adoration for the holdouts who honor it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Their water stays there — although every few years someone voices a crackpot idea about California importing water from the Columbia River.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025

In the aftermath of his unconventional voyage, Larry Walters assured the American public he wasn't actually a crackpot who had risked life and limb with a hare-brained scheme that was dreamed up on a whim.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024

How can someone be both a steel-witted lawyer and a crackpot?

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2023

Matters in physics have now reached such a pitch that, as Paul Davies noted in Nature, it is "almost impossible for the non-scientist to discriminate between the legitimately weird and the outright crackpot."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson