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#1379: Mayim Bialik
Perhaps better known as the character Amy Farrah Fowler on the – frankly rank anti-science – TV show The Big Bang Theory, Bialik is quickly rising to become one of the leading voices of pseudoscience...
View Article#1380: Paula Bickle
Paula Ruth Bickle runs – or at least used to run – the 5-day-a-week hour-long, Internet-based “Dr. Paula” radio show, where she would provide usually wrong medical and nutritional advice to people who...
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#1381: Mark C. Biedebach
Perhaps he is a small fish in the grand scheme of things, but Mark C. Biedebach is still worth mentioning. Biedebach is Professor Emeritus of Physiology at the California State University, Long Beach,...
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#1382: Robert Bigelow(?)
We’re a bit unsure about this one, but we suppose he’s worth a mention. Robert Bigelow is a hotel and aerospace entrepreneur; in particular, he is the owner of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America...
View Article#1383: Wendell Bird
If you take a quick look at the courtcases involving creationism in public schools in the US, one name tends to pop up so often that it is hard to avoid giving him an entry in our Encyclopedia. Wendell...
View Article#1384: Timothy Birdnow
Timothy Birdnow is a property manager in St. Louis associated with Tea Party Nation, who has somehow managed to make a name for himself on the delusional right, with all the pseudoscience and denialism...
View Article#1385: Phillip Bishop
Having scientific credentials is an indicator but no guarantee of scientific literacy, and Phillip Bishop is a case in point. Bishop is a Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Alabama, and has...
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#1386: Dick Black
Richard H. “Dick” Black is, since 2012, a Virginia State senator, after successfully portraying his opponent as a “moderate” – and who would want a moderate character rather than a fuming, batshit...
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#1387: Joshua Black
Joshua Black is a former street preacher who in 2014 sought to represent a Tampa Bay district in the Florida House. In the process he managed to draw some national attention to himself for the love and...
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#1388: Paul Blair
We’ve covered a respectable number of anti-gay nutters here, but Paul Blair still manages to impress, with a deranged lack of insight and critical thinking skills to challenge the worst. Blair is...
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#1389: Jill Blakeway
Acupuncture is woo. It’s among the most familiar and widespread forms of altmed, and many otherwise reasonable people have been mislead into thinking that it might have something going for it. But...
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#1390: Gary Blier
The principle behind Advanced Cell Training (ACT) is that your body “can heal itself,” which is generally true for a lot of issues, though you feel that the ACT people – Gary Blier, the guy behind the...
View Article#1391: Richard Bliss
I am not completely sure about his current whereabouts, but Richard Bliss used to be chairman of the Education Department of the California-based Institute for Creation Research. Since the ICR is one...
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#1392: Norman "Rod" Block
Chiropractors range from the almost-respectable near-physiotherapeuts to the deranged zapfdings lunatic medieval alchemist types. Chiropractors who advertise chiropractic treatments for pets seem to...
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#1393: Fred Bloem
I have no idea how I first came across this one, but Fred Bloem runs a “holistic and integrative medical practice” in Maryland, and is a hardcore promoter of woo and dangerous forms of denialism....
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#1394: John Bloom
Oh, yes – there are creationists with credentials. Usually, however, those credentials are irrelevant to the topic of evolution, yet creationist organizations still like to push these people in an...
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#1395: Dave Blount
Dave Blount is a wingnut conspiracy theorist writing for the conspiracy site Moonbattery and occasionally for John Hawkins’s Right Wing News. His posts range from the expected (Democrats in Congress...
View Article#1396: Wayne Boettcher
More creationists, and this time a small fish. I am not sure what Wayne Boettcher’s day job might be, but he got our attention with an essay he wrote for the StopTheACLU page trying to debunk...
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#1397: Gary Boisclair
Gary Boisclair is a village idiot and acolyte of Randall Terry who is most famous (well, if at all) for mounting a primary challenge to Keith Ellison – despite not having lived in Minnesota since 2003...
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#1398: Ty Bollinger
As you probably know cancer is a target for quackery like nothing else, and Ty Bollinger has, over the years, managed to make something of a name for himself in cancer quackery circles – at least to...
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