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#2891: Ashley Gilhousen et al.

There are lots of county school boards in the US, and given relatively few voters and low election participation rates it is perhaps unavoidable that some of them are plagued by loons of various kinds....

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#2892: Carey Gillam

Carey Gillam is a professional fearmonger, pseudoscience promoter, disinformation merchant, conspiracy theorist and “investigative journalist” with the group U.S. Right to Know (USRTK), an...

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#2893: Amber Lynn Gilles

Amber Lynn Gilles is a local San Diego mother, antivaccine activist and generally terrible person. She received some attention in 2020 after she was denied service at a Starbucks for refusing to wear a...

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#2894: Howard Gillman

Howard Aaron Gillman is an American scholar of political science and currently serving as the 6th chancellor of the University of California, Irvine since September 2014. Whatever else he might have...

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#2895: Tim Gionet

A.k.a. Baked AlaskaA.k.a. Tim Treadstone Anthime ‘Tim’ Gionet, popularly known as Baked Alaska, is an alt-right media personality, influencer, troll and promoter of neo-Nazi nonsense – including...

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#2896: Samuel Girod

Samuel A. Girod is a Kentucky-based Amish snakeoil salesman and convicted felon. Indeed, Girod is somewhat notable for being a classic snakeoil salesman– looks and all – of the kind parodied in old...

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#2897: Jimmy John Girouard, Cynthia Pitre, et al.

Colonic irrigation is quackery and has no place in prevention or treatment of any medical issue. And although the case of Jimmy John Girouard et al. is so old that we’re unsure what they’re up to these...

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#2898: David Gisselquist

David Gisselquist is a fundie, conspiracy theorist and HIV “dissident”. Gisselquist thinks that e.g. Africa’s AIDS epidemic is the result of HIV-contaminated medical practices – in particular...

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#2899: Ann Louise Gittleman

A.k.a. the First Lady of Nutrition (self-proclaimed) Before the Food Babe and a slew of other silly fad diet and nutritional pseudoscience promoters, there was Ann Louise Gittleman and a slew of other...

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#2900: Rudy Giuliani

 “Truth isn’t truth.”-       Giuliani defending his client, Donald Trump, on NBC “Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about...

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#2901: David Givens & the creationists in the Kentucky state legislature

Ah, state legislatures. David P. Givens has served in the Kentucky Senate (9th District) since 2009 and is apparently President pro tempore of the Kentucky Senate. Givens is a creationist. Back in...

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#2902: Eric Gladen

Eric Gladen is the founder of the organization the Children’s Health Defense; yes, that would be RFK jr.’s organization, which is one of the most influential disseminators of anti-vaccine...

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#2903: Jen Glantz

Jen Glantz is a professional bridesmaid (founder of the business Bridesmaid for Hire), and a fluffy, empty, lightweight influencer and promoter of anti-vaccine-adjacent nonsense about the flu shot....

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#2904: Greg Glaser & the Physicians for Informed Consent

Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) is an antivaccine group of physicians that specializes in discouraging vaccination, framing their objectives –misleadingly – as being a matter of “informed...

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#2905: Darryl Glenn

After some hesitation, we decided to drop an entry on Laurel Glaze– her blog provides some hints that hers is not the kind of lunacy we like to cover and that her influence is limited. Meanwhile, Joel...

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#2906: Peter Glidden

Naturopathy is a vaguely defined assortment of quackery whose popularity (and it seems to be popular) runs entirely on marketing and fads rather than evidence or efficacy. And naturopathic “education”,...

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#2907: Tim Goeglein

If you haven’t paid attention, this might sound like a blast from the past, but Focus on the Family is one of several Taliban-adjacent groups of sadistic, pseudo-fascist trolls that feel weaponized by...

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#2908: Rebecca Goff

Craniosacral therapy is pseudo-religious quackery based on a number of fundamental errors about human anatomy and lots of murky New Age fluff about life energies and vibrations– indeed, even among...

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#2910: Indur Goklany

Indur M. Goklany is a science policy advisor to the United States Department of the Interior and one of the most influential promoters of climate change denialism in the US. Goklany has an extensive...

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#2911: Jon Gold

Oh, hey, this is an old one we bet most of you had forgotten. Jon Gold was one of the movers and shakers of the Truther movement back in the early 2000s, tirelessly promoting the work of various...

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#2912: Simone Gold

America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) is a wingnut political organization founded to spread conspiracy theories, denialism and pseudoscience about COVID-19. The group rose to fame with their July 27,...

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#2913: Arthur Goldberg

Arthur Abba Goldberg is a businessman, JD (former professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law), convicted fraudster, and longtime leader in the anti-gay-rights movement and the ex-gay...

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#2914: Stuart Goldman

Stuart Goldman is an author and journalist whose work has been wide-ranging and had quite a bit of impact. But Goldman is also a columnist for the WND, and a thoroughly silly one at that. Goldman is...

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#2915: Beatrice Golomb

Beatrice Golomb is professor of medicine at UC San Diego and head of the Golomb Research Group, which is “currently working with Gulf War Veterans, as well as with people experiencing side effects from...

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#2916: Jorge Gonzalez et al.

This is a bit of a placeholder entry. A topic of concern that received some attention (but not much) in the run-up to the 2020 election (and after) was the vast amount of conspiracy mongering, hate,...

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