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Fair enough; I take back charlatan. Would you go for grandstanding? Or perhaps sophistry?
People said the same thing about Carl Sagan but in Sagan's case I believe that criticism was unfair. He was enthusiastic about stuff which merited his enthusiasm. Compare the style of Pinker; this is remarkable stuff (freaking evolution man--five billion years ago our ancestors had one cell) and no grandstanding is necessary. It's like Horowitz performing a concert with Liberace staging.
Grandstanding is more fair. I think that people in the public eye generally get treated unfairly, Sagan, Pinker, Kurzweil, movie stars, politicians, CEOs, the works.