#2431: Matt Wykoff
Matt Wykoff is an internet crank and Catholic extremist who sends emails to people he disagrees with demanding that they shut down their blogs and websites or suffer the wrath of the One True Church....
View Article#2432: Chao Hsing Yeh
“Tooth fairy science”is a term coined by Harriet Hall to denote clinical trials and studies done on the properties of a phenomenon before it has been established that the phenomenon exists. Of course,...
View Article#2433: Charmaine Yoest
Charmaine Yoest is a writer, political commentator, former president and CEO of the anti-abortion group the Americans United for Life, and a policy analyst and later vice president of the...
View Article#2434: Ted Yoho
Theodore Scott Yoho was the U.S. Representative from Florida’s 3rd congressional district from 2013 until his term limit in 2020 (his viewson taxes and national debtis a likely reason he kept getting...
View Article#2435: Dean Young
Dean Young was one of several Republican candidates running in a special election to replace Rep. Jo Bonner in Alabama’s first Congressional district in 2013, where he received some attentionfor his...
View Article#2436: Kara Young
A.k.a. Kara Russo Kara Young is a Tea Party activist, “a Catholic, 100% pro-life, pro-family, pro-religious freedom Republican” and a 2014 candidate for Lt. Governor in Rhode Island. She is also the...
View Article#2437: Robert Youngblood
Robert L. Youngblood is, or at least used to be, chairman of the Randolph County TEA Party in Trinity, North Carolina, and a creationist of the most ludicrous variety. He was also a candidate for an...
View Article#2438: Joshua Youngkin
Joshua Youngkin is a law and policy analyst at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture – or at least he used to be: we haven’t really heard from him in a couple of years. Youngkin is...
View Article#2439: Michael Youssef
Michael Youssef is a televangelist, senior pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, executive president of Leading the Way, signatory to the Manhattan Declaration and author of a number of...
View Article#2440: John Zaffis (?)
Haunted Collector is a “documentary series”, at least initially broadcast on Syfy (we don’t know if it is still running and cannot be bothered to check). The show features John Zaffis, his kids and...
View Article#2441: Drew Zahn
Drew Zahn writes for the WND, and that tells you all you need to know about why he deserves an entry here – despite fierce competition, the WND remains one of the absolutely worst and most ridiculous...
View Article#2442: Michael Zezima
A.k.a. Mickey Z. Michael Zezima, or Mickey Z., is a writer, editor, blogger and novelist who has contributed to numerous magazines and written several books, and who also appeared in Brian Kraft’s...
View Article#2443: Eric Zielinski
A.k.a. EricZ Eric Zielinski, DC, is a chiropractor, essential oilsalesman, and apparently a practitioner of “biblical health” through anAtlanta-based online ministry.Despite his almost painful lack of...
View Article#2444: Sher Zieve
RenewAmerica is a fringe-rightwing, fundamentalist conspiracy theory website that would qualify as ridiculous even by the standards of fringe-rightwing conspiracy websites. And among the site’s...
View Article#2445: Emeal Zwayne
Emeal Zwayne is not only affiliated with Ray Comfort’s Living Waters Ministry, where he is, indeed, the president, but is also Ray’s son-in-law. Zwayne has been involved in several of Ray’s...
View ArticleLaunching round 4
So that was actually the end of round 3 through the alphabet. It took us several years. At some points we might have thought that, with more than 2000 loons covered, “that’s it”. But here’s the thing....
View Article#2446: Saeed Abedini
Saeed Abedini is an Iranian American Christian pastor, famous for being imprisoned in Iran in 2012 based on allegations that he compromised national security, an incident that created international...
View Article#2447: Jim Abeler
For a long time, creationism and climate change denialism were associated with the American right whereas antivaccineviews and woo were associated with the left. The picture was inaccurate back in the...
View Article#2448: Mary Ackerley
Fake illnesses, or more accurately: fake diagnoses, are a major problem, and they come in a variety of forms, from Morgellons diseaseto electromagnetic hypersensitivity. And to emphasize: There is no...
View Article#2449: J. Christian Adams
John Christian Adams is an attorney and activist formerly employed by the Department of Justice (under Bush) and generally famous for his alarmist and false claims about the extent of voter fraudin the...
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