He has also published articles in the area of mathematical finance, including a 2014 paper " Pseudo-mathematics and financial charlatanism, " which emphasizes the dangers of statistical overfitting and other abuses of mathematics in the financial field.
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This business runs the gamut from obvious silliness, like a wolf women drumbeating ceremony ( led by bald performance artist Rachel Rosenthal ), to unconscionable spiritual charlatanism, such as the pagan euthanasia ceremony visited upon a desperate AIDS patient.
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While acknowledging the ripe opportunity for charlatanism in a field that addresses problems with solutions that range from razing a house to hanging a crystal on a nine-inch string from an intrusive beam, William Spear has a different worry.
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In 1976, the " New York News " wrote that Spiegel was " one of the people whose work over the past few decades has helped strip away the aura of charlatanism and make hypnosis a respectable medical tool ."
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In a letter to William Short in 1820, Jefferson described many biblical passages as " so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture . " In the same letter Jefferson states he describes Paul as the " first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus ."
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He told another correspondent that the discards were " so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture, " and wrote yet another that they reeked of " vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications ."
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So when it says something is quackery, it may not mean what I would take that to mean, which is that the practice was " fraudulently " promoted as effective in a particular case, " i . e . ", charlatanism.
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Officials brought in psychiatrists to investigate the " Balta psychosis "; their reports had it that Inochentism was either an issue of poor nutrition and lack of education ( V . S . Yakovenko ) or just charlatanism from its leaders ( A . D . Kotsovsky ).
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The technique is called cold reading and is probably as old as charlatanism itself . . . If John Edward ( or any of the other self-proclaimed speakers with the dead ) really could communicate with the dead, it would be a trivial matter to prove it.
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Published the following year, it was greeted with positive reviews from " Sting, who said that Forrest " manages to disarm the skeptic, as well as debunk the charlatanism that surrounds popular astrology, with language that is as intelligent and cogent as it is poetic ."
