#1551: Elaine Donnelly
Wikipedia sums her up rather pithy in the first sentence of their entry: “Elaine Donnelly is an American conservative activist and anti-feminist principally concerned with preserving the traditional...
View Article#1552: Kurt Donsbach
Dave D’Onofrio appears to be a creationist and David Abel’s coauthor on those few papers they actuall got published in some low-tier but peer reviewed science journals (and has accordingly been lauded...
View Article#1553: David M. Dosa
Psychic pets are pets that some, uh, “researchers” claim are … psychic. They communicate using ESP. These researchers generally know that the animals in question are psychic because the researchers are...
View Article#1554: Richard Doty(?)
This is a tricky one. Though Richard Doty is a legend in UFO circles, he qualifies as a “loon” only under the satisfaction of certain conditions, the main one being “Doty is not a cynical liar”, that...
View Article#1555: Jock Doubleday
A standard ploy among denialists is to offer pseudo-challenges to scientists to provethat the scientific fact they deny is true or that their pseudoscientific delusions are false – where the protocol...
View Article#1556: William Campbell Douglass
Fundies do say the darndest things, but the whereabouts of the “Lee Douglas” supposedly associated with the Christian Coalition and described here cannot be determined and he probably doesn’t...
View Article#1557: Joni Dourif
Joni (Jonina) Dourif is the (a?) ex-wife of the legendary Ed Dames, and the one who took over Dames’s company Psi Tech (most famous, perhaps, for telling us where Elizabeth Smart’s dead body was...
View Article#1558: Christopher Doyle
There’s something obviously and deeply sad about “ex-gay” activists, to the extent that even despite their often despiccable behavior we almost feel a bit reluctant to include them in our Encyclopedia....
View Article#1559: Patrick Doyle & Kristen Luman(?)
Ghost Mine is an exceptionally idiotic – perhaps the most idiotic – paranormal “reality” TV series on Syfy channel. It features a group of miners together with paranormal investigators Patrick Doyle...
View Article#1560: O'Neal Dozier
I suppose many associate the Ft. Lauderdale area with relatively liberal attitudes. I guess it might be, which means, of course, that the local fundamentalist crazies have cranked their volume up...
View Article#1561: Steve Drain
Unlike most members of the Westboro Baptist Church, Steve Drain is not related to the Phelpses and was not born into the cult. In the 1990s, however, he made a documentary film involving extensive...
View Article#1562: Raymond Drake, Michael Drake and the TFP
Yes, yet another wingnut organization, this time something called the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), and it’s precisely the same as, and just as idiotic, as...
View Article#1563: Mark Driscoll
Mark Driscoll is the disgraced founder and former head of the Seattle-based Mars Hill Church, a megachurch with distinct cult-like traits. He’s also the founder of The Resurgence, which sought to train...
View Article#1564: Jeanne Drisko
The University of Kansas Medical Center, like so many university medical centers these days, has its own program for quackery and pseudoscience: the KU Integrative Medicine Program. It was developed by...
View Article#1565: Eric Dubay
Dubay busted "using Masonic 666Hand Sign", according to critics whoconclude that he is part of the Conspiracy.So it goes in these circles.We have a bit of a hard time determining whether this is...
View Article#1566: Karl Duff
Dumpster diving among the signatories to the Discovery Institute’s petition A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism produces some hilariously inane results, and Karl Duff is definitely one of the sillier....
View Article#1567: Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar, et al.
We are loath to give space and exposure to the Duggars, but I suppose a brief note is in order in an Encyclopedia like this. And Jim Bob Duggar actually did serve in the Arkansas House of...
View Article#1568: Selwyn Duke
A wingnut’s wingnut (and a particularly crazy one at that), Selwyn Duke writes for the inaccurately named American Thinker and Alan Keyes’s website RenewAmerica. Duke is perhaps particularly known for...
View Article#1569: Lindsey Duncan
Lindsey Duncan is a naturopath and one of many scammers and hucksters pushing phony drugs and supplements and fake weight-loss aids, in particular, in Duncan’s case, green coffee bean extract, which...
View Article#1570: Don Dwyer
Don Dwyer was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2003 until 2014, when he was defeated presumably largely because of his legal troubles and certain hard-to-market drinking-related...
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