crackpot:
(plural: ‘crackpots‘; both the ‘c’ in this word are said with a ‘k’ sound)
a person with very strange, foolish or mad ideas, especially a highly educated and intelligent person with bizarre ideas;
a nut case; a nut; a crank,
a crackpot -- a crazy scientist
This scientist is a crackpot; he is a crackpot scientist.
Some popular ‘crackpots’ from the Hollywood films/movies: Professor Wayne Szalinski in “Honey, I shrunk the kids”; Professor Sherman Kump in ‘The Nutty Professor”; Dr. Brachish Okun in ‘Independence Day”; Dr. Raymond Stantz in “Ghost Busters”; and Dr. Emmett Brown in ‘Back to the Future”.
Every scientist or philosopher who comes up with a new theory which certainly sounds strange or even crazy just because it is new is called a crackpot until all of a sudden his/her theory is proven right, and he/she becomes a celebrity overnight!
