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#1220: Ide Trotter and the creationists on the Texas Education Agency Science...
Trotter[Note: I wrote up this post for Round 1 but inexplicably forgot to publish it – it is published now, relatively unaltered, but still highly relevant to the current situation]One of the most...
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#1221: Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Ok, so we are not completely sure whether already-legendary kook Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is actually formally qualified – he seems to be Greek – but his (significant) contributions to lunacy has been made...
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#1222: Frank Turek
Frank Turek is a famous fundie author and motivational speaker. He is the author of Correct, Not Politically Correct (you get the gist) and co-author with Norman Geisler of I Don’t Have Enough Faith to...
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#1223: Hal Turner
Hal Turner is Hal Turner, and Hal Turner is, as many will be aware, a rather infamous sympathizer of white supremacism. He rose to attention (in part) as a regular caller on Sean Hannity’s WABC radio...
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#1224: Rocky Twyman
Rocky Twyman is a community organizer, church choir director and public relations consultant from the D.C. suburbs who managed to draw some attention to himself for his profoundly moronic solution to...
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#1225: David Tyree
David Tyree is a former football wide receiver who played in the NFL for seven seasons and got famous for his “helmet catch” in the Giants’ final drive in the 2008 Super Bowl. He’s out of NFL now, and...
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#1226: Fred Upton(?)
The question mark doesn’t really mean that we wonder whether Fred Upton is a loon. He is almost certainly not. But his official views are sufficiently insane that we’ll count him as one. Upton is the...
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#1227: Glen Urquhart
Many of you probably remember Christine O’Donnell from the 2010 elections, but O’Donnell wasn’t the only wingnut running for office as a Republican in Delaware. Indeed, she may not even have been the...
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#1228: Jacques Vallée
For some truly amazing physics crackpottery I recommend checking out Pentcho Valev (useful introduction here), but Valev is hardly American. Jacques Fabrice Vallée qualifies, though – although...
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#1229: Taylore Vance & Roi Halse
Reiki is woo. Indeed, reiki is faith healing based on a metaphysics strikingly close to Western medieval delusions about how the body works. Reiki is also a rather common form of woo. Thus, it is...
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#1230: Larry Vardiman
Larry Vardiman is a hardcore and almost legendary creationist “scientist” and signatory to The CMI list of scientists alive today who accept the biblical account of creation. He does have a Ph.D. in...
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#1231: Doreen Virtue
Doreen Virtue is a Hay House guru and practitioner of Angel Therapy, and is as such one of only a few people that can “see” and “communicate” with angels, including the guardian angels that watch out...
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#1232: Michael Voris and Churchmilitant.tv
Michael Voris is a hysterically fanatic, militant religious (Catholic) fundamentalist. He is the president and founder of St. Michael’s Media, which creates short videos and full length programs for...
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#1233: Gary Wade
I think this is him.There isn’t much to argue about when it comes to the lunacy of domestic terrorist Clayton Waagner, but he’s not quite the kind of lunatic that deserves a separate entry in an...
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#1234: C. Peter Wagner
One of the most elusive and frightening people afoot in the US at the moment, C. Peter Wagner is a domionionist writer often recognized as the de facto leader and founder of the New Apostolic...
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#1235: Joel D. Wallach
Joel D. Wallach, M.S., D.V.M. and N.D. (Naturopathic doctor – or “not doctor”) is a veterinarian and naturopath with a long history of involvement in dubious health schemes. He is particularly infamous...
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#1236: Mike Warnke
Mike Warnke is the author of the 1972 book The Satan Seller, a notoriously fraudulent “memoir” of his life as a “Satanist”. He is also a preacher, and has predictably fooled plenty of people into...
View Article#1237: Anna & Don Warrick
Anna and Don Warrick are the leaders of the fundamentalist ministry Cadets for Christ, which operates (or at least used to operate) at the Air Force Academy. Some suggest “cult” is a more appropriate...
View Article#1238: Terry Watkins
If you think Jack Chick is on the crazy side, you may not be familiar with the glorious antics of Dial-the-truth ministries, run by Terry Watkins. No, seriously; this is pretty much as insane as the...
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#1239: Jean Watson
Jean Watson is a Distinguished Professor of Nursing at Colorado and head the National League for Nursing, the board that accredits nursing schools. Hers is, in other words, a position of genuine power...
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