#1260: Ronald J. Williams
Oh, goody. Of all the insane gems and artefacts peddled as genuinenly magical on the Internet’s woo-mongers bazaars of bullshit targeted at the deluded or rationality-challenged, the Healing Broom is...
View Article#1261: Thompson "Tom" Willis
Thompson F. “Tom” Willis is the hardcore theocrat president of the Creation Science Association for Mid-America (CSA), and “researches in and speaks [i.e., he does outreach, not scientific research] on...
View Article#1262: Gordon Wilson
Gordon L. Wilson does indeed have a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Public Policy from George Mason University. Some might notice that this is hardly a relevant background if your main concern is...
View Article#1263: Dawn Winkler
Dawn Winkler is a hardcore anti-vaxxer who in 2006 ran for governor of Colorado on the Libertarian ticket. She is also a mainstay at whale.to. “How on earth did we survive for millions of years WITHOUT...
View Article#1264: Pamela Winnick
Pamela R. Winnick is, or at least used to be, a trained lawyer and staff writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She rose to fame, however, by being one of the main characters of the pseudo-documentary...
View Article#1265: Kurt Wise
Kurt Patrick Wise is a young earth creationist paleontologist, one of the founders of modern baraminology (in particular through his work with Walter ReMine), and a signatory to the CMIlist of...
View Article#1266: Stephen Wise
Stephen Wise is a (former) Florida state senator, chairman of the Senate’s Education and Pre K-12 Committee, and hardcore creationist. And then you know where this entry will be going. Although...
View Article#1267: Terence Witt
In 2006 readers of Discover Magazine were given the opportunity to see an ad for a book called Our Undiscovered Universe, written by Terence Witt. In the book, Witt would lament the state of modern...
View Article#1268: David Wolfe
Youtube is a blessing for snakeoil salesmen, conspiracy theorists and loons. I don’t know how successful David Wolfe’s products have been in particular, but at least youtube has enabled him to spread...
View Article#1269: John Woodmorappe
“John Woodmorappe” is a pseudonym, and although his real name is known (heck, even Wikipedia uses it) we are reluctant to out people here, so despite Woodmorappe’s actions we’ll let him stay...
View Article#1270: Willie Wooten
Willie Wooten is the founder of the New Orleans-based Gideon International Christian Fellowship and self-proclaimed Apostle who claims to have “had a positive influence in the governmental arena and...
View Article#1271: Jeremiah Wright
Deliverance minister Win Worley, who used to claim that oral sex demons “reside in the mouth, lips, tongue, taste buds, throat, sex organs and the mind” (search him out on youtube) is apparently dead,...
View Article#1272: John C. Wright
John C. Wright is apparently a fairly popular science fiction writer, as well as a conservative Catholic with an ax to grind. We are not here going to engage with his rather staggeringly dishonest or –...
View Article#1273: Jonathan V. Wright
Jonathan V. Wright is the founder and medical director of Tahoma Clinic in Renton, Washington, where he also practices medicine (except for when he was suspended for 90 days beginning in the summer of...
View Article#1274: Katie Wright
Katie Wright is a particularly obtuse and fanatical anti-vaccine activist, who writes for the blog Age of Autism (not a place to go for reliable information, to put things diplomatically). As most...
View Article#1275: Wendy Wright
Wendy Wright is a creationist, wingnut, conspiracy theorist, former president and CEO of Concerned Women for America (CWfA; good resource on them here), and currently vice president of the Catholic...
View Article#1276: Vinstonas "Winston" Wu
Ok, so I am not entirely sure this one’s really worth covering, but here you go. Vinstonas “Winston” Wu is the guy behind the admittedly sporadically updated website The Scientific Committee Exposing...
View Article#1277: Mary Nell Wyatt, Betty Rhodes et al.
Mary Nell Wyatt (I think). Couldn'tfind a picture of Rhodes (we doubt thatshe is related to the late actress).But of course. Combining “Biblical history” with “alternative” New Age pseudo-egyptology...
View Article#1278: Paul Yanick
Paul Yanick Jr. is the president of the American Academy of Quantum Medicine (AAQM), which is said to “promote the study of the bioelectrical and bioresonance systems and subsystems in the human body...
View Article#1279: David Yerushalmi
David Yerushalmi is a lawyer and a political activist, and a driving force behind the anti-sharia movement in the United States – which already means that you have to be pretty thoroughly delusional....
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