crankery
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈkræŋkəri/
- Offensive
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- His presentations are filled with crankery, often mixing facts with wild speculations.
Examples
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Many people dismiss conspiracy theories as mere crankery that lacks any evidence.
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The only reasons anyone would oppose continued immigration are crankery and xenophobia.
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It's a profoundly practical discussion of why internet crankery is simply not enough.
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In other words, crankery is just another faith-based initiative.
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Yes, I cannot help but see a fundamental connection between a broader "religious impulse," the tendency to embrace woo, and crankery.
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As far as I can see, it's economic crankery plus old-fashioned and unrealistic extreme isolationism.
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It can be extremely difficult to distinguish between crankery and paradigm-shifting challenges to scientific orthodoxy.
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It's how and why that skepticism exists that distinguishes crankery from genuine scientific skepticism.
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He insults and then characterizes replies in kind as crankery.
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And, of course, religious dogmatism and anti-science crankery/denialism can overlap; hence, creationism in all its forms.
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Synonyms
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6.1
Something very silly that goes against common sense
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9.1
A false or silly statement people should not believe
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4.9
Being very silly or clearly unreasonable
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9.3
Unclear ideas not based on reason or evidence
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7.9
A state of being very silly and clearly against common sense
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6.0
An action or decision that is unfair and does not make sense
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8.6
A strong refusal to change mistaken opinions even when there is evidence
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Believing that certain actions, signs, or objects can change what will happen
A situation that is very strange and does not make sense
False or not proven ideas that claim to explain how the world works
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
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Etymology
The word crankery comes from crank, the same root as cranky, which meant someone 'odd' or 'bad-tempered', and the ending -ery which shows a kind of 'behavior'. So crankery means the behavior of holding odd or foolish ideas, often 'not based on science'.