Meanings of crackpot idea in English

It's a crackpot idea, worse than any of our existing biological weapons.

In fact, for many geologists, continental drift was a crackpot idea with little hard evidence.

Some crackpot idea about saving me from my friends.

It always seemed a crackpot idea to me.

This seemed to many like a crackpot idea, and it took a while to catch on.

It's impossible to give every plane crash, collapsed bridge, missing space probe, or crackpot idea its due.

This theory has been derided as a " crackpot idea" and "voodoo science" by respected experts in physics.

The e-tolls system is a monumental failure; the monolithic blue-lit gantries symbols of a crackpot idea which flouted valuable public consultation.

No, it is not a crackpot idea from Brussels, this one comes from Geneva where UEFA are meeting the continent's football elite.

You know, Sergej was always having crackpot ideas.'

The New Yorker, April 22, 1939 P. 11 Talk story about crackpot ideas offered to the Administration.

She never complained about Meyer's crackpot ideas, even though she tore up her feet running naked through a grove of stinging nettles.

The concept of interphylum archetypes, deemed too bizarre to warrant active refutation, experienced the curt and derisive dismissal reserved for crackpot ideas in science.