#2688: John M. Cobin
John M. Cobin is a libertarian madman and social commentator. As a matter of fact, Cobin is only borderline qualified for an entry in this encyclopedia on the grounds that he renounced his American...
View Article#2689: Todd Coconato
Todd Coconato is a Tennessee-based rightwing conspiracy theorist, fundie, pastor and host of The Remnant News and Remnant Godcast podcast. His shows consist of a predictable mess of rightwing politics...
View Article#2690: David Codrea
David Codrea is a former investigative reporter (Operation Fast & Furious), gun rights activist and Oath Keepers affiliate. His investigative abilities are in general … moderate: Codrea was also...
View Article#2691: Lorenzo Cohen
Quackery is ubiquitous, and most of it is associated with alternative medicine practitioners relying on overt pseudoscience. But there are also real researchers with real credentials who occasionally...
View Article#2692: Patrick Colbeck
Patrick Colbeck is an absolutely batshit insane Michigan-based conspiracy theorist and denialist, who nevertheless (or more likely: therefore) managed to get himself elected to the the Michigan Senate...
View Article#2693: Mary Colbert
A.k.a. Paulette Todd (real name) Mary Colbert is a fundie and self-declared prophet, and one of the central promoters of the genre of Trump-finds-God fan fiction; notably, she is co-author of the book...
View Article#2694: Leonard Coldwell
A.k.a. Bernd Klein (or Bernd Witchner) (original name) Some promoters of pseudoscience and alternative medicine are dangerous because they are somewhat successful at impersonating real medical experts,...
View Article#2695: Lucy Cole
Lucy Cole (middle)California bill SB 276 was introduced in 2019 as an effort to curb parents’ use of ideological exemptions to vaccine mandates for children attending public schools, and it was...
View Article#2696: William Cole
We have had the opportunity to cover the quackery known as functional medicinea numberof times already, and that’s not particularly surprising: functional medicine is quackery, but it is luctrative...
View Article#2697: Joshua Coleman
Joshua Coleman is an antivaxer activist associated with the conspiracy film VAXXED and the originator of the hashtag #SaidNoMother for antivaxx parents to create memes with their child’s (alleged)...
View Article#2698: Carol Collins
Carol Collins offers you “the James experience”. She is, according to herself, “the voice for The Entity James and The Collective” and in general a “verbal, conscious channel who has the ability to...
View Article#2699: Loren Coleman
Note: We messed up the alphabetical order here, but we had already written up this one and it’s likely that there will be some time before we get back around to this spot in the alphabet, so here we...
View Article#2700: Kristin Comella & Theodore Gradel
Stem cell quackery is a serious problem. Stem cell clinics preying on people in difficult situations with ‘experimental’ but non-evidence-supported and often nonsensical cures for various serious...
View Article#2701: James Comer
James Comer is a US congressman representing Kentucky’s 1st congressional district in the US House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Kentucky in 2015. And though Comer...
View Article#2702: Laura Condon
More antivaxxers. Laura Condon is an anti-vaccine activist affiliated with NVIC (National Vaccine Information Center), one of the oldest, most powerful and craziest antivaccine organizations in the US....
View Article#2703: Teresa Conrick
No, it never stops. Teresa Conrick is yet another antivaxxer and conspiracy theorist, and she is associated with the antivaccine groupHealth Choice and writes for the antivaccine blog Age of Autism....
View Article#2704: Vince Consiglio
It’s been a while since he’s been in the news, but it’s worth reminding you. Context: motorcycle riders who are 21 or older have been allowed to ride without a helmet under certain conditions in...
View Article#2705: Larry Cook
Everyone remembers Kellyanne Conway, Senior Counselor to the President in the Trump administration and previously campaign manager, famous e.g. for popularizing the phrase‘alternative facts’. Now,...
View Article#2706: Michael Copenhagen
Michael Copenhagen is a member of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton and an anti-vaccine activist (thus directly contradicting the Catholic Church’s doctrine). He has even testified before...
View Article#2707: Anne Schlafly Cori
Yes, she is the daughter of Phyllis Schlafly, a prominent member of the Schlafly clan, and a prominent figure in Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, and Anne Schlafly Cori is more or less as deranged as...
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