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Scientific Charlatan Crossword Clue

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noun

• one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone

34%15Charlatan in the scientific community
noun

• A practitioner of (a presumed) pseudoscience (i.e. "false scientist", "bogus scientist" "sham scientist", "inauthentic scientist").

24%8 Artful charlatan
noun

• someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

• a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness)

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