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English citations of tinfoil hatter

Noun: "(slang, pejorative) one who believes in and/or propagates conspiracy theories"

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  • 2005, Margot Roosevelt, "Not in My Water Supply", Time, 17 October 2005:
    The Washington State Dental Association is backing his $300,000 pro-fluoride campaign. Danelle Weaver and her friends, meanwhile, have raised less than $10,000. But they are undaunted. "People think we are tinfoil hatters," says Weaver, "but we're just average families who take the time to research and want what's best for our children."
  • 2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars, Oxford University Press (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    Even if blogs are not vox populi, it does not follow that, as blog critics love to taunt, bloggers are the tinfoil hatters of American political life.
  • 2011, Jessica Andersen, Storm Kissed, Signet Eclipse (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    The offer was still open for Rabbit to tweak things so she could go back to that life, blissfully unaware that the tinfoil hatters had it right when it came to the countdown.
  • 2012, Roger Bouwman, 99 Days, Lulu.com (2012), →ISBN, page 11:
    We then tell the public and get laughed at and called crazy tinfoil hatters and then it happens just as we said it would.
  • 2012, Federico Ferrara, "The Grand Bargain: Making 'Reconciliation' Mean Something", Bangkok, May 2010: Perspectives on a Divided Thailand (eds. Michael J. Montesano, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, & Aekapol Chongvilaivan), ISEAS Publishing (2012), →ISBN, page 129:
    Whereas the process may well fail to bring along the tinfoil hatters who support the PAD, its inclusiveness is likely to reduce the appeal of extremist, "anti-system" forces or otherwise to complicate future efforts to subvert the results that it produces.
  • 2014, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Love Is the Drug, Arthur A. Levine Books (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    She doesn't know whom to believe, but she agrees with the tinfoil hatters about one thing: Something is weird here.