Is there a word for an authority on nonsense?

[bret11]

I'm looking for a word for an authority on nonsense. I don't know if the specific definition I have would fit any word but there are lots of words out there so I would think it must exist.

I already remembered the word quack but I think that more leans to someone that could be doing a malpractice towards something that could be a legitimate field. A doctor may be called quack but doesn't make the field nonsense. When I think of the word charlatan which I found in relation to the word quack I think more of a con artist taking advantage of people and they know they are a liar. Though both words have the same definition -- a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses.

Rather than this definition I would very much address that they do have the knowledge on something but I'd want to say that what they have all this such knowledge about is complete nonsense. Whatever the field itself would be nonsense but they are the authority on it. Maybe that they very much believe their own nonsense as well. I don't know what the word for this would be.

I guess I expect sarcastic answers as with talking to people I know that's all I've gotten so far but I'd like the actual word.

[egan]

I'm looking for a word for an authority on nonsense. I don't know if the specific definition I have would fit any word but there are lots of words out there so I would think it must exist.

I already remembered the word quack but I think that more leans to someone that could be doing a malpractice towards something that could be a legitimate field. A doctor may be called quack but doesn't make the field nonsense. When I think of the word charlatan which I found in relation to the word quack I think more of a con artist taking advantage of people and they know they are a liar. Though both words have the same definition -- a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses.

Rather than this definition I would very much address that they do have the knowledge on something but I'd want to say that what they have all this such knowledge about is complete nonsense. Whatever the field itself would be nonsense but they are the authority on it. Maybe that they very much believe their own nonsense as well. I don't know what the word for this would be.

I guess I expect sarcastic answers as with talking to people I know that's all I've gotten so far but I'd like the actual word.

i seriously doubt it