#2371: Paul Veit
A.k.a. “The Dino Pastor”More creationist nonsense! Paul Veit is a fundie and creationist who “spends his time traveling the country dismissing evolutionary theories.” He seems to have adopted the “Dino...
View Article#2372: Suzanne Venker
Suzanne Venker is an anti-feminist journalist who writes articles for Fox News. Venker is also the niece of Phyllis Schlafly, and has even co-written books with Phyllis (The Flipside of Feminism: What...
View Article#2373: Bertha Veronneau
So this is pretty obscure. We have no idea where Bertha Veronneau currently is, whether she is American, or whether she’s even alive. But the lunatic idiocy she represents is just too good to pass...
View Article#2374: Louie Verrecchio
Louie Verrecchio is a fundie Catholic author, columnist and speaker, as well as president and founder of Salve Regina Publications, Inc. He is apparently particularly notable for his Harvesting the...
View Article#2375: Chelsen Vicari
The Concerned Women for America (CWfA) is a group of wingnut fundies that was founded by Beverly LaHaye and is opposed to anything that can be interpreted as sympathetic toward homosexuality or...
View Article#2376: Tom Vineyard
In 2011 Oklahoma City just passed an ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, but not before a bizarre series of local clowns had been given the opportunity to speak...
View Article#2377: Ed Vitagliano
We’ve had plenty of opportunities to familiarize ourselves with the American Family Association (AFA) here, but in any case: the AFA is a fundamentalist homophobic hate group. Ed Vitagliano is its...
View Article#2378: Bettina Viviano
Viviano in an interview with whatlooks like Jerome CorsiIntelligent people often believe stupid shit, but it is hard to maintain much confidence in the notion that Bettina Viviano is particularly...
View Article#2379: Lynette Volkers
There are many nurses in the US. Some of them promote ridiculous and dangerous pseudoscience, and a few are even antivaxxers. Lynette Volkers is a nurse and antivaccinationist. According to Volkers,...
View Article#2380: Fay Voshell
Fay Voshell is a columnist for the Orwellianly named American Thinker, where she displays exactly the kind of mental work that makes her organization see the need to desperately try to clarify, in its...
View Article#2381: Carmela Vuoso-Murphy
Rev. Carmela Vuoso-Murphy is the director of something called The Divine Light Center, which is devoted to energy therapy and integrated energy therapy®. As Vuoso-Murphy sees it, “[t]oday, science and...
View Article#2382: David Wagner
Tachyon energy is a thoroughly pseudoscientific notion that has become popular among groups of quacks, woo-pushers and frauds. The idea of harnessing tachyon energy was popularized in a...
View Article#2383: Pat Wagner
A.k.a. “The Bee Lady”Bee venom therapy (BVT) is one modality within the general domain of quackery known as apitherapy: the use of various bee products as medical treatments. It is perhaps a relatively...
View Article#2384: Terry Wahls
For alternative medicine and “cures” the core marketing strategy remains relying on the personal anecdote. An anecdote makes claims personal, and relatable, and human, and will naturally tend to come...
View Article#2385: Linda Walkup
Linda Walkup is a fundamentalist and creationist. She is also in possession of a PhD in molecular Genetics from the University of New Mexico Medical School. That, of course, has made her eligible to be...
View Article#2386: Linda Marie Wall
According to plenty of fundies, hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks and all sorts of disasters are part of God’s punishment, but they seem to have a hard time agreeing on precisely what He is...
View Article#2387: Lance Wallnau
Director of the Lance Learning Group, a Dallas-based “strategic teaching and consulting” company, Lance Wallnau is currently one of the leaders of the militant wing of the American Taliban. An...
View Article#2388: Mike Walsworth
Mike Walsworth is a former member of the Louisiana State Senate, representing District 33 from 2008 until he was term-limited in 2020. He previously served in the Louisiana House of Representative...
View Article#2389: Dee Wampler
Dee Wampler is a Missouri-based attorney (or, for the moment, ex-attorney), writer and wingnut conspiracy theorist. He is probably most famous for his book The Myth of Separation between Church and...
View Article#2390: James Wanliss
Yes, it’s that one again: the list of signatories to the Discovery Institute’s nonsense petition A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism. James Wanliss is a Professor of Physics at Presbyterian College,...
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