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#1036: Peter Popoff(?)
Ok, this one might be too easy, though some may complain that Popoff may not really deserve an entry in an Encyclopedia that seeks to expose loons rather than cynical fraud. Well, if Popoff doesn’t...
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#1037: Boone Powell & Barry Rand
PowellHonorable mention extended to L. Vincent Poupard, who has taken quantum woo to breathtaking levels of idiocy through SCIO, Scientific Consciousness Interface Operation system, and the idea of...
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#1038: James van Praagh
James Van Praagh is an author and television personality who markets himself as a clairvoyant and as a spiritual medium. Apparently he chose this career path after someone told him he was a medium and...
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#1039: Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager is a fundie rightwing radio host, pseudo-intellectual, and regular contributor to Townhall, where he tries to argue that the United States is a Christian nation and that liberals are bad....
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#1040: Kathleen Prasad
It is of course not only humans that are targets of quackery and woo. Animal acupuncture is fairly common, but the range of available idiocy to which you can subject your pets is impressive. Kathleen...
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#1041: Larry Pratt
Larry Pratt is a wingnut pundit and founder and/or head of several organizations civilized people do well to stay far away from, such as Gun Owners of America (a “gun rights” advocacy group that makes...
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#1042: Spike Psarris
Spike Psarris used to be an engineer in the United States’ military space program. He claims (as so many others) to have “entered that program as an atheist and an evolutionist. He left it as a...
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#1043: Lloyd Pye
Lloyd Pye is a crank’s crank who has received some renown through his particular take on the ancient aliens bullshit. His basic idea is that some alien race, the Anunnaki, came from the planet Nibiru...
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#1044: Hollie & Patrick Quinn
Randy Quaid is apparently mad as a hatter, but insofar as he is, it is not quite the kind of madness that generally merits a separate entry in our Encyclopedia. Ben Quayle certainly deserves honorable...
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#1045: William Rader
We’ll award an honorable mention to Johanan Raatz, the guy behind the Facebook group MemeShock and a variety of less-than-ideally well-hinged ideas propagated on Youtube, but he appears to be, overall,...
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#1052: Tim Ravndal
Tim Ravndal is the former president of the Big Sky Tea Party Association in Montana, and as crazy as they come. The admirable little thing about Ravndal, however, is his straightforwardness with regard...
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#1053: James Arthur Ray
James Arthur Ray is a motivational guru often associated with “self-help”, though some cynics like to point out that “if you’re paying $9000 for a seminar, it ain’t self-help, folks.” Ray is most...
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#1054: Eric S. Raymond
Climate change denialist John Ray of the blog Greeniewatch deserves special mention for his claim, apparently made with a straight face, that: “The Holy Grail for most scientists is not truth but...
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#1055: John K. Reed
John K. Reed apparently enjoys a PhD in geology. He is nevertheless a young earth creationist and on the board of the Creation Research Society, the geology editor for the Creation Research Society...
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#1056: Ralph Reed
Ralph Eugene Reed, Jr. is best known as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition during the early 1990s, as the founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition (which arranges an annual...
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#1057: Scott Reed
We have no idea where Scott Reed is currently located or whether he is still alive, but he used to be a force on the fringes of the self-help movement. Indeed, his 1972 book The Miracle of...
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#1058: Robert R. Reilly
Robert R. Reilly is a writer and senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, most famous for his book The Closing of the Muslim Mind, where he tries to explain how Islamic civilization...
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#1059: Mary Stewart Relfe
Mary Stewart Relfe is the author of When Your Money Fails (1981) and The New Money System (1982), in which she tries to argue that the number 666 is beginning to appear everywhere, which again is, of...
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#1060: Stephanie & Michael Relfe
Stephanie & Michael Relfe are among the stars of whale.to, insofar as they are committed to virtually any crazy thing ever suggested on that site. Yes, they are. Here you can read their interview...
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#1061: Frances Rice
Frances Rice is the chairperson of the (rather obscure) National Black Republican Association, which seems to be, quite frankly, engaged in one of the most ridiculous efforts to promote historical...
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