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Calling someone a 'grifter' is an intellectually lazy derogatory epithet. How is he grifting?
by mgamache 6y ago
Calling someone a 'grifter' is an intellectually lazy derogatory epithet. How is he grifting?
- n4r9 6y agoHe appears to have been trying for many years to convince people that he's discovered a unified theory of physics, without producing a single technical paper on the topic. I think that suffices.
- mgamache 6y agogrifting implies he's doing it for financial gain. I think there's more lucrative ways for him to make money than publishing physics papers.
- DemocracyFTW 6y agoI'd say benefit generally instead of gain that must be precisely in monetary terms. Grifting is lying plus purpose, and that purpose may be any kind of advantage obtained by smoke-and-mirror tactics. It may be reputation, or satisfaction from being talked about, appearing in talk radio, that kind of stuff.