Sentence examples of "crackpots" in English

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Quantum information theory “was profoundly unpopular” at the time, Lloyd said, and questions about time’s arrow “were for crackpots and Nobel laureates who have gone soft in the head.” he remembers one physicist telling him. Теория квантовой информации «была глубоко непопулярна» в то время, говорит Ллойд, и вопросы о стреле времени «были уделом психов и тронувшихся умом нобелевских лауреатов».
Fields of endeavor that use “science” in their titles tend to be those that get masses of people emotionally involved and in which crackpots seem to have some purchase on public opinion. Области деятельности, которые используют слово «наука» в своих названиях, как правило являются областями, в которые эмоционально вовлечены массы людей и в которых шарлатаны могут иметь материальный интерес в общественном мнении.
Just to be clear, I am not siding with those – usually American far-right crackpots – who favor a return to the gold standard, in which countries fix the value of their currencies in terms of gold. Хочу уточнить, что я не сторонник тех, кто выступает за возвращение к золотому стандарту (как правило, это американские крайне-правые чокнутые), где страны устанавливают стоимость своих валют по отношению к золоту.
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