A charlatan (malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit) who actively develops and exploits a larger audience through a role in the public media by enhancing the entertainment "value" of news topics to the detriment of the veracity of the message and, as a result, the health of public policy discussions. This results in a passionately rabid but woefully malinformed and/or excessively inflamed audience clinically disinclined to thereafter engage in reasonable discourse...resulting in a generally permanent scarring of their reality lobe.
True excellence in broadcasting is constantly eroded by the loud and passionate strains of mass media charlatainers who intentionally and calculatedly use rhetorical strategies to distort the truth in order to better stir passions of their audience for the maximum personal gain and fullest commercial exploitation of the charlatainers and their commercial and political backers.
by texlex61 April 22, 2010
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Yes. The Charlatan who doesn't actually believe in God has finally decided to chime in to invoke tha name of a God he doesn't actually believe in to lecture Muslims about how they need to be weary of people who claim to believe in God but don't. So, people like him. $80,000 a month he takes from the religious but he can't give a straight answer to the question "Do you believe in God?" A literal psychopath and ideologue by his own definition come to warn you of the evil psychopaths.
Hym "Ha! A charlatan WOULD know how easily manipulable the religious are, wouldn't he? And then he claims that the Palestinians who live in the literal surveillance state the he himself has been decrying for years are better off than the would be living in Gaza. So you should all just accept your subservience to the Jews in the name of 'peace.' 'Peace' meaning the Orwellian hell he purports to fight against. He isn't 'Pro-Muslim.' He's 'Pro-Having control over the religious so he can protect himself from the "Dark Tetrad types" ' That's all it is. Fear. The living embodiment of Phobos. Crying and cowering behind religious sycophants. I mean the whole thing is just the most bizarre, tone-deaf projection anyone could conceivably write!
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Hym "That's the important bit, is it? That religion makes people go 'yay?' Get the fuck out of here. You're an atheist charlatan, Alex. You feint the absence of belief so you can proselytize from the other end. The 'fruits' of Christianity IS the act of Christians taking credits for higher-order abstractions. Forgiveness? Buddhism has doctrine about forgiveness. Hinduism has it. Ok. Maybe not. Maybe atheist charlatan is a bit of a stretch.... Nope. Nope. I'm right. You get paid to sit there and 'Oh well I don't know. Everything is just so nebulous!' And you hym and haw and say 'Is it really the claim the creator of the universe spoke to a guy in direct dialogue... Or is it the friends we made along the way?' And we're all worse off for it."
by Hym Iam July 9, 2024
Get the Atheist Charlatan mug.A deceptive practice common in online science communication where individuals present themselves as authoritative defenders of science while engaging in shallow, misleading, or self-serving rhetoric. The scientific charlatan mimics the language of scientific rigor—demanding evidence, citing studies, invoking the scientific method—while using these tools to dismiss genuine inquiry, protect orthodoxy, or build personal brand. They are distinguished from legitimate science communicators by their lack of epistemic humility, their willingness to misrepresent uncertainty as certainty, their tendency to weaponize "science says" against any dissent, and their prioritization of performance over understanding. Scientific charlatanism flourishes in attention-driven media environments where confidence matters more than accuracy, and where being "pro-science" can become an identity unmoored from actual scientific practice.
Example: "He had no scientific training, but his YouTube channel was all 'science says' and mocking believers. Scientific Charlatanism: performing rigor without practicing it, and calling it education."
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Get the Scientific Charlatanism mug.Appearing on CPAN, Preacher of the House Mike "Tiny" Johnson got his ass chewed out (not in a good way) by furious, conservative callers, who dragged him for filth over keeping the House out-of-session and blocking the Epstein discharge petition. one after the other, angry people told Mike he's a fucking idiot and my dude just sat there with Resting Charlatan Face like he was staring at a Burger King drive-up menu written in French.
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Get the Resting Charlatan Face mug.The analysis of how individuals or institutions gain power and prestige in social systems by performing expertise they do not possess. The "charlatan" succeeds not by delivering real results, but by mastering the theater of credibility: using the right jargon, cultivating the proper aesthetic, building networks of endorsement, and offering simplistic, confident solutions to complex social problems. Their currency is social trust, not tangible efficacy.
Theory of Social Charlatanism Example: A political demagogue is a Social Charlatan. They don't have a workable plan for fixing the economy, but they expertly perform the role of the savior: using charismatic outrage, scapegoating, and grandiose promises. Their power comes from convincingly playing the part of the solution, not from actually having one. They sell the performance of efficacy to a desperate public.
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