Resembling knowledge which is actually not true; conveying false claims: There are some charlatanistic aspects of a few physicians which are considered unscientific and leave nature to cure their patients; however, such doctors take the credit for such results as well as fat fees.

A popular news anchorman has been suspended, or temporarily inactivated from his position, for making charlatanistic claims about the dangers he supposedly experienced while he was going to obtain the news and other possible charlatanistic statements that he might have made over the previous years.