#1280: D. Gary Young
Donald Gary Young is a self-styled naturopath known in particular for his promotion of essential oils (also here) and his Raindrop Therapy. These are promoted for instance through his multi-level...
View Article#1281: Jin Young, Niki Han Schwarz & Charles Schwarz
At Daengki Spa in Koreatown, LA, you can get a 45-minute V-Herbal Therapy for $20 per, well, squat. The steam includes a mixture of herbs imported from Korea by spa manager Jin Young, and according to...
View Article#1282: Doug Yurchey
A.k.a. Tray CaladanDoug Yurchey (or Tray Caladan – pretty sure they’re the same person) writes for the blog at world-mysteries.com, a website devoted to claiming that mysteries easily explained by...
View Article#1283: Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias (full name Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias) is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical apologist, founder and chairman of the board of Ravi Zacharias International...
View Article#1284: Bill Zedler
Oh, the state representatives, again. Bill Zedler is a Texas state representative (R-District 96), and he is, at least for our purposes, most famous for being the sponsor of various creationist bills,...
View Article#1285: John Zerzan(?)
Now, this is a tricky one. John Zerzan is an anarcho-primitivist political philosopher. The basis for his political philosophy seems to be a relentless commitment to a fallacious appeal to nature, with...
View Article#1286: Tony Zirkle
A.k.a. Frederick von Ness (apparently original name)Tony Zirkle got some attention when he was a candidate in the Republican primary for Congress in Indiana’s 2. district in 2008. He had tried to run...
View Article#1287: Mike Zovath
Mike Zovath, a graduate of Bob Jones University, is Senior Vice President of Answers in Genesis, and, together with Ken Ham and Mark Looy, the cofounder of that organization. It is, in other words,...
View Article#1288: Henry Zuill
Henry Zuill is Professor emeritus at Union College (Nebraska), a Seventh Day Adventist college whose science and mathematical division states, among other things, that it “… concentrates on helping...
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Well, we've been through the alphabet twice. But we have still managed to overlook some pretty significant lunatics. We have no entry on Harry Jackson, or Kevin Swanson, Buster Wilson, Gina Miller or...
View Article#1289: Gerald Aardsma
Gerald E. Aardsma is a young earth creationist and fundamentalist, though he does, in fact, have a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of Toronto. Currently, Aardsma is a “chronologist”....
View Article#1290: Richard Abanes
Richard Abanes is a bestselling and award-winning writer and journalist, specializing on socio-religious issues, cults, the occult, world religions, the entertainment industry, and pop culture. He has...
View Article#1291: David Abel
David Abel is Director of The Gene Emergence Project, and works in/founded/directs the Department of ProtoBioCybernetics and ProtoBioSemiotics at the Origin of Life Science Foundation, Inc.. Since it...
View Article#1292: Keith Ablow
Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist, author, and media personality, who tends to appear on such intellectually enlightening shows as The Tyra Banks Show and Glenn Beck as an expert on psychoanalysis. He...
View Article#1293: Harry Accornero, Susan DeLeMus & the birthers in the New Hampshire...
AccorneroThe guy behind this, uh, fascinating site does not appear to be American, so we’ll leave him alone – we’re not running out of American loons anytime soon. Harry Accornero and Susan DeLemus are...
View Article#1294: Judith Acosta
Judith Acosta is, at least according to her biography at Huffington Post, “a licensed psychotherapist, classical homeopath, and crisis counselor in private practice.” She advocates what she calls...
View Article#1295: Christopher Adamo
Christopher Adamo writes for Renew America (that’s Alan Keyes’s outlet), and he writes precisely what you’d think people associated with Alan Keyes’s outlet would write – for instance that gay rights,...
View Article#1296: Christina Adams
Christina Adams is the author of the memoir A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention and Recovery (about her son’s apparent recovery, and yes: Adams blames her son’s autism on the...
View Article#1297: Contessa Adams
Contessa Adams is a Christian speaker, author of a book called Consequences,and director of the Love in Action Ministries. Apparently she used to be a stripper, but was saved and is currently engaged...
View Article#1298: Hunter Adams
Though he has claimed to be a research scientist at Argonne National Labortory, Hunter Haviland Adams is, in fact, an industrial-hygiene technician (who “does no research on any topic at Argonne”) and...
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