#1319: David Anick
I think this picture is pretty oldDavid Anick is an MD, mathematician and researcher into homeopathy and, in particular, water memory. The level of crackpot pseudoscience in his contributions is pretty...
View Article#1320: Robert Antonellis
We don’t really know who Robert Antonellis is, but apparently he’s got computer and Internet access, and is not afraid to use it to spread his ideas about how the world hangs together (at his website...
View Article#1321: Bill Armistead
Bill Armistead is the former chairman (2011–2015) of the Alabama Republican Party, and is probably most famous for his sympathies with various birther conspiracies. In 2012 Armistead recommended that...
View Article#1322: Virginia Armstrong
Virginia Armstrong is the national chair of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum. Armstrong is, accordingly, a seriously hardcore loon. According to Armstrong, America is locked in “the deadly struggle...
View Article#1323: Joe Arpaio
Joe Arpaio is the wingnut sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, an office nominally designated as an agency for upholding the law, rather than what Arpaio personally thinks shouldbe the law (no, he does...
View Article#1324: Inanna Arthen
Inanna Arthen is, according to her bio, a “trained psychic and professional Tarot reader, Inanna has taught classes in psychic development, meditation and ‘practical magick working,’ and has extensive...
View Article#1325: Eugene C. Ashby
Eugene C. Ashby is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology, and a hardcore intelligent design creationist. As a creationist, Ashby has apparently made a...
View Article#1326: Cindy Asmussen
Cindy Asmussen is the Central Texas Area Director for the wingnut organization Concerned Women for America. They apparently have chapters all over the place, each of which apparently contains at least...
View Article#1327: Ed Asner
Ed Asner is television, stage, and voice actor of some fame, and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He has been engaged in various work that I suppose many readers will be sympathetic to,...
View Article#1328: John Assaraf
John Assaraf is, according to himself, a serial entrepreneur, brain researcher, and CEO of PraxisNow, a brain-research company that creates some of the most powerful evidence-based brain retraining...
View Article#1329: Susanne Atanus
A candidate called “S. Atanus”? Seriously? But the name is not the only thing that makes Susanne Atanus sound like a cartoon villain.Now, primaries in election seasons tend to bring out some rabid...
View Article#1330: Jeffry John Aufderheide
There is a substantial number of blogs and websites out there devoted to anti-vaccine promotion; many of them claim otherwise, but it is often easy to gauge from the very name that we are talking some...
View Article#1331: Dylan Avery
Dylan Avery is a filmmaker and, in particular, the creator of the Loose Change films (together with Korey Rowe and Jason Bermas), which have established his position as one of the movers and shakers of...
View Article#1332: David Awbrey
Back in 2005 David Awbrey was appointed the Kansas State Department of Education Director of Communications, and as such he was at least partially responsible for the following stages in Kansas’s...
View Article#1333: Stephen B. Ayre
Few things attracks quackery like cancer, and insulin potentiation therapy is one of the dumbest, most dangerous “alternative” cancer therapies available. Though there is a number of practitioners out...
View Article#1334: Joseph Backholm
Joseph Backholm is the Executive Director of the Family Policy Institute of Washington. That institute promotes family values, and Backholm is accordingly also the leader of the Preserve Marriage...
View Article#1335: Holly A. Bacon and anyone else who market black salves as cancer cures
“Black salves” are corrosive agents that produce thick, dry scabs (“eschar” on the skin.) They can lead to substantial harm and damage. For that reason, a few crazy, delusional or frankly dishonest...
View Article#1336: Dean Bailey
“Ex-gay” and anti-equality activist Dean Bailey is probably a minor figure overall, but he is associated with Peter LaBarbera, and is the author of the book Beyond the Shades of Gray: Because...
View Article#1337: Larry Bailey
Larry Bailey is the founder of Special Operations Speaks, one of many groups dedicated to attacking Obama on military issues based on a variety of conspiracy theories. Bailey is also a birther,...
View Article#1338: James D. Baird & Laurie Nadel
“Epigenetics.” That’s something relatively new and exciting. And people don’t in general know precisely what it means, which is an opportunity for pseudoscientists of various stripes to suggest that it...
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