Talk:Mountebank

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Please let there be some multitude. A Mountebank has quite a different connotation than that of a Charlatan. A Mountebank is also referring to the popular world of Commedia del Arte. The Doctors and Pharmacists are here popularly regarded as men of power who claim sincerity and anuthority without having the substance for it. They are more to be likened with propagators of Pharmaceutical industry today. Mountebank is absolutely synonymous with charlatan, but charlatans or quacks are rather indicating people with an alternative truth or remedy without ability to substantiate what they propagate, but who is in a minority position in regard of the establishment. Sigmund Freud was a mountebank in propagating Cocain, although it means another thing to argue he was a charlatan! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xact (talk • contribs)