Randi distinguishes between pseudoscience and crackpot science. Common synonyms for "crank" include crackpot and kook. Randi regards crackpot science as "equally wrong" as pseudoscience, but with no scientific pretensions. For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. Furthermore, his fellow explorers ridiculed him for his eccentric, crackpot theories regarding a Hollow Earth. Always with a conspiracy or inside information that is crackpot theorism. President Theodore Roosevelt had described Sinclair as a "crackpot" because of the writer's socialist positions. Jessup dismissed Allende as a "crackpot". According to self-proclaimed "crackpot historian" Adam Gorightly, Discordianism was founded as a parody religion. Gage's only friend is Professor Cruikshank, whom everyone considers a crackpot. After informing the police, he is disregarded as a crackpot. This lead another "Metropolitan" reporter to doubt that Yates was a crackpot as generally believed. He suggests that she is a crackpot. Filmmaker John Waters wrote a highly favorable review that was included in his book "Crackpot". John Waters described it in his book "Crackpot".