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#1891: David L. Lewis

“David Lewis” is a relatively common name – some of its carriers are definitely non-loons – but David L. Lewis is one of the movers and shakers in the anti-vaccine movement and one of discredited crank...

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#1892: Patrice Lewis

Patrice Lewis is a columnist at the WND, and we could really have ended this entry right there. But it’s hard not to watch such trainwrecks unfold, so here we go:One topic on which Lewis focuses is...

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#1893: Colin Liddell

Colin Liddell is a reasonably central altright figure who edits (with Andy Nowicki) and regularly contributes to Alternative Right, where he argues for instance that European colonialism of Africa...

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#1894: G. Gordon Liddy

Although he is mostly a ridiculous and toothless source of hilarity these days, George Gordon Battle Liddy is something of a legend, and certainly deserves an entry. Liddy is a conservative talk radio...

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#1895: Deborah Lindsey & the IMU

John Lilly, patient zero for all things dolphin woo, has passed away. We cannot find explicit evidence that Deborah Lindsey is into dolphin woo, but she probably is. Lindsey is the founder of the...

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#1896: Ricky Line

Ricky Line is – or at least was back in 2011 – superintendent of Hart County’s school in Lexington, Kentucky, a religious fundamentalist extremist and, of course, a creationist, something that...

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#1897: Stephen Linsteadt

Ascalar wave is an alleged type of electromagnetic wave that works outside of physics as we know it and can thus be used to prop up all sorts of New Age woo. As a scientific concept it was discarded in...

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#1898: Avi Lipkin

Conspiracy theories involving Obama are a-dime-a-dozen, but the version(s) promoted by Avi Lipkin – who manages to be more delusionally insane even than most of the paranoid wingnut conspiracy...

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#1899: Bruce Lipton

Bruce Lipton is a former cell biologist, who abandoned science- and reality-based biology after having experienced a “spiritual revelation” about cells that led him to embrace creationism and decide...

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#1900: Bob Livingston

Bob Livingston is the wingnut behind the website Personal Liberty Digest (and not identical to former congressman Bob Livingston). Apart from typical wingnuttery and survivalism stuff Livingston...

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#1901: Thomas Lodi

Cancer woo is big business (just see the previous entry), and few things are more repugnantly ludicrous than pushing homeopathy for cancer – though we suspect that most people aren’t really aware of...

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#1902: Raúl Erlando López

Raúl Erlando López is another one of those precariously few young-earth creationists with a real degree so cherished by the creationist community and who are therefore heavily used, promotion-wise, to...

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#1903: Robert Oscar Lopez

Robert Oscar Lopez is a former Associate Professor of English and Classics at California State University, Northridge (a position he apparently abandoned to “save his soul”), “ex-gay” who at one point...

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#1904: Joel Lord

One of the standard gambits of the anti-vaccine movement is the toxins gambit, the argument that vaccines are filled with dangerous toxins. Indeed, “toxins” is a standard rallying cry for many types of...

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#1905: William Lori

William Edward Lori is a bigoted maniac, anti-gay activist, American prelate of the Catholic Church and former archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Lori is most famous for his repeated...

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#1906: StarShield Lortie

StarShield Lortie is the owner of Blissful Spaces Housecleaning in Columbia, Tennessee. Lortie claims that she can rid houses, apartments, condos, or used cars of “residual energies left behind by the...

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#1907: Anne Graham Lotz

Anne Graham Lotz is the spawn of the odious Billy Graham, founder of AnGeL Ministries, author of numerous books (including Just Give Me Jesus), hardcore wingnut and bigot, and promoter of a society...

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#1908: Sandy Lunoe

David Lowe’s article “The Sun Is Not A Star” seems to be a spoof, just so you know. There is nothing funny about Sandy Lunoe. Lunoe is an antivaxxer who at least occasionally writes for the antivaccine...

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#1909: Fred Luter

As former president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and senior minister of the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, Fred Luter is not primarily renowned for his tolerance, humanity...

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#1910: Erwin Lutzer

Erwin W. Lutzer is the senior pastor of The Moody Church, in Chicago, Illinois (retiring in 2016), an influential figure on the religious right, and prolific author of fundamentalist, hateful, angry,...

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