#2071: Kyle Olson
Indoctrination: How ‘Useful Idiots’ Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalismis the title of a book by Kyle Olson. It’s hard to see how further comment could be necessary, but at least...
View Article#2072: Mensur Omerbashich
Mensur Omerbashich is a crackpot and conspiracy theorist who received some attention when the Comet Elenin silliness took off in conspiracy circles. He has subsequently spent a lot of pretty quixotic...
View Article#2073: Judith Orloff
Though she is a board-certified psychiatrist and has enjoyed something resembling real career (she is, for instance, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA), you should probably...
View Article#2074: Christopher Ortiz
Christopher Ortiz is (or at least was in 2006) the editor of the reconstructionist journal Faith for All of Life, communications director for the Chalcedon Foundation and a remorseless theocrat. His...
View Article#2075: James L. Oschman
Ah, yes: energy medicine. James L. Oschman, who does possess a PhD in the biological sciences from back in the days, is currently one of the grand old men of woo, and author of the 2000 book Energy...
View Article#2076: George Otis jr.
Strategic level spiritual warfare is the central idea of the various “prayer warrior” networks existing across the US, whose main proponents include people like C. Peter Wagner, John Dawson (of Youth...
View Article#2077: Al Ouimet
Goodnighties is a sleepwear product that will ostensibly “maximize sleep benefits” by neutralizing “the stress our bodies produce.” It does so since it is “made with a smart-fabric” that is...
View Article#2078: David Outten
David Outten is production editor for the religious right media group Movieguide (that would be Ted Baehr’s group), a website offering “in-depth analyses of current movies from a biblical perspective.”...
View Article#2079: Selena Owens
Selena Owens is a one-time vice chair of the Conservative Campaign Committee PAC, columnist for WND and precisely what you would expect from someone in that position (here is her 2014 defense of Sarah...
View Article#2080: Ion Pacepa
Ion Mihai Pacepa, author of the book Red Horizon, is something of a legend, and probably at least partially deservedly so. Formerly a three-star general in Communist Romania, advisor to president...
View Article#2081: Christine Page
A.k.a. “The mystical physician”Christine Page is the president of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. Since “subtle energies” are, according to the New Age...
View Article#2082: Steve Palazzo
Since 2011 Steven McCarty Palazzo has been the U.S. Representative for Mississippi’s 4th congressional district. To no one’s surprise, Palazzo doesn’t like gay people, and he has maintained a profile...
View Article#2083: Helen Palmer
An enneagram is a drawing with nine lines that in New Age religions functions as a mystical means to categorize personalities through numerology – think “self-help-directed tarot version of scientology...
View Article#2084: Gwyneth Paltrow
Yes, a celebrity loon, but this one’s different. Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is, in addition to being an Oscar-winning actress, the, uh, brains behind the website Goop.com, which is notable for making even...
View Article#2085: Thomas John Paprocki
Thomas John Joseph Paprocki is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, and a strikingly unsavory fellow. Paprocki is primarily famous as a...
View Article#2086: Star Parker
Star Parker is the founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), columnist (e.g. Townhall and the WND), sometimes politician (running unsuccessfully for Congress for California’s...
View Article#2087: Bob Parks
Bob Parks operates the website Black & Right (currently Blackandblonde) and specializes in voter fraud conspiracy theories. And Parks will pretty much run with everything. “[U]pwards of 19 states...
View Article#2088: Craig Parshall
Though his wife, Janet Parshall, may be more famous (and is coming up next), Craig Parshall is a loon in his own right. Parshall is senior vice president and general counsel of National Religious...
View Article#2089: Janet Parshall
Janet Parshall is the host of the popular wingnut fundie talk show In the Market with Janet Parshall (replacing Talking it Over), broadcast on the Moody Radio network on over 700 stations. She was also...
View Article#2090: Carmen Pate
Another day, another fundie wingnut talkshow host. This time it’s Carmen Pate, currently producer and host of Saving Grace, a podcast ministry of Grace School of Theology. She is apparently also a...
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