#1359: Lindy Beam
Honorable mention to Brooks Bayne for his fantastically weird, but ominous Sandra Fluke conspiracy theory involving both Jews and Obamacare and persecution of True Christians. But there is too little...
View Article#1360: Martin “Red” Beckman & William J. Benson
BeckmanThe Law That Never Was: The Fraud of the 16th Amendment and Personal Income Tax is a 1985 book by William J. Benson and Martin J. “Red” Beckman, in which the authors claim that the Sixteenth...
View Article#1361: Bruce Bedinger
Hardly significant in the grand scheme of things, but Bruce Bedinger is at least vice-president of the River to the Nations Ministries in Winston-Salem. And he’s a creationist. According to Bedinger,...
View Article#1362: Al Bedrosian
Al Bedrosian was a hardcore theocratic, batshit mainstay of Virginia politics for a while (a perennial candidate), until he actually managed to get himself elected to the Roanoke County Board in 2013....
View Article#1363: Pieder Beeli
During the day Pieder Beeli is Senior Scientist for Schafer Corp – he has a PhD in physics and a respectable research record – but when his shift ends he turns into … Pieder Beeli, who writes for the...
View Article#1364: Iris Bell
The name “Elohim Belial” is allegedly the name of the founder of the God Damn America Movement, a faction of the Yakub Islam movement, but we are not entirely convinced that the whole thing is not a...
View Article#1365: Raymond Bell
Reparative therapy is the idea that homosexuality and transgenderism can and should be “cured.” There are plenty of such therapies out there, of course; none of them work, and even the guiding idea is,...
View Article#1366: Richard Bell
Dickie Bell is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (since 2010), representing the 20th district. He is most famous (to us, at least) for his efforts to get pseudoscience into Virginia schools...
View Article#1367: Robert Scott Bell
The Robert Scott Bell show is a lunatic altmed conspiracy podcast on on the lunatic fringe “Republic Broadcasting Network”. The podcast is characterized by conspiracy theories that would make even the...
View Article#1368: Joel Belz
Joel Belz is the founder of God’s World Publications, which includes the World Journalism Institute and WORLD Magazine, a biweekly fundamentalist tract. He is also a signatory to the Manhattan...
View Article#1369: Yosef Ben-Jochannan
A.k.a. Dr. BenYes, another one of those. Dr. Ben is considered one of the more notable – read that as “notorious” – Afrocentric scholars, one of those who take an Afrocentric perspective on history...
View Article#1370: Ken Bennett
Like many US states, Arizona has no inhibitions when it comes to electing crazies to positions of power. Take Ken Bennett, for instance. Bennett is the former president of the Arizona Senate, and was...
View Article#1371: Jonathan Benson
What is the link between polio, pesticides and cell phone radiation? You may think “none”, and you’d be right. Unfortunately, no one told Jonathan Benson (well, they probably did, but if you tell...
View Article#1372: Becky Berger
You remember the Texas Board of Education, of course. In their creationist heydays, various nationally famous denialists and local lunatics would both launch attacks on biology, physics and history in...
View Article#1373: Jerry Bergevin
Jerry Bergevin enjoyed a brief stint in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2010 to 2012, and although he managed to do only a limited amount of actual damage, he sure tried to present...
View Article#1374: Brian Berman
Though far from the loudest or most colorful, Brian Berman is, in fact, one of the movers and shakers of the medical quackery movement in the US. Berman is a Professor of Family Medicine and director...
View Article#1375: Sallie Bernard
SafeMinds is an advocacy group dedicated (to a large extent) to antivaxx lobbying and, in particular, to the utterly discredited hypothesis that mercury causes autism. And, for people with little...
View Article#1376: Mark Bertolini
Quackery has gradually been infecting teaching institutions and hospitals all across the US as a result of deliberate marketing strategies and wealthy donors, and the developments are a cause for...
View Article#1377: F. Kenton Beshore
F. Kenton Beshore is the senior pastor of Mariners Church, California – which appears to be something of a megachurch – and World Bible Society President. But most of all, Beshore is a hysterically...
View Article#1378: John Best
A minor but rather obnoxious conspiracy theorist, John Best is the guy behind the blog Hating Autism, in which he denies the existence of autism and argues that the condition can be cured through...
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