#2450: Myra Adams
It is a core belief of religious fundies that they are persecuted, and if you are sufficiently paranoid, you’ll find evidence to back up that delusion everywhere. Myra Adams, a freelance writer whose...
View Article#2451: Harry Adelson
Over the last couple of years we have seen a large number of bogus stem cell clinics popping up marketing unproven, expensive and potentially dangerous“stem cell treatments” to people in desperate...
View Article#2452: Kenneth Adkins
Kenneth Adkins is a Florida-based pastor and anti-gay activist who has described himself as “one of the most Respected Black Conservative Voices in America”. Adkins received some attention when he, in...
View Article#2453: Kathy Afzali et al.
State legislatures again! (Though this time around the culprit is at least gone as of now.) Kathryn L. Afzali represented district 4 in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2011 to 2019. For our...
View Article#2454: Sangeeta Agarawal
Sangeeta Agarawal is the founder of health startup Helpsy, and an ardent champion of all things woo and New Age shiny and flimsy. Helpsy is supposed to be “a platform that brings together health care...
View Article#2455: Bill Akins
Remember back in the early 2010s, when Obamacare was launched, and the associated conspiracy theories about it promoted by deranged wingnuts? One of the more popular ones was the idea that the health...
View Article#2456: Dalal Akoury
The IntegrativeAddiction Conference 2015 (“A New Era in NaturalTreatment”) was a pseudoscience and conspiracy theory event in 2015where medical doctors and quacks were treated to a range of talks by...
View Article#2457: I.Q. al Rassooli
I.Q. al Rassooli is an anti-Islam activist most famous for his youtube series “Idiots Guide to Islam” and as author of the book Lifting the Veil: The True Faces of Muhammad and Islam, which seems to be...
View Article#2458: Ray Alcon
Ray Alcon is a North Carolina-based preacher, religious fundamentalist and creationist – really just a local village idiot, but we’re aiming for comprehensiveness here, so we’ll grant him a brief...
View Article#2459: Ali Alexander
A.k.a. Ali Akbar (birth name) Most famous for being one of the central organizers of Stop the Steal, a campaign to promote the conspiracy theory that widespread voter fraud led to Biden’s victory over...
View Article#2460: Abdul Malik Ali
Amir Abdul Malik Ali is a former member of the Nation of Islam and currently head of the Oakland branch of As-Sabiqun, an Islamic fundamentalist organization founded by Imam Abdul Alim Musa. As-Sabiqun...
View Article#2461: David Alimi & Jacques Chelly
David AlimiDavid Alimi (MD) and Jacques E. Chelly (MD, PhD, MBA) are both apparently (nominally) respectable medical doctors associated with the University of Pittsburgh. Despite possessing credentials...
View Article#2462: Jason Allen
Jason Allen is an N.D.affiliated with Bastyr University, an influential and rather powerful establishment that “educates” naturopaths and other quacks through courses in naturopathic medicine, covering...
View Article#2463: Harry Alsleben
Brief shoutout to Dave Allison of Heavens Corners church in Ohio for this one(note that the phrase that really qualifies him for being mentioned is “loving warning”), but it’s old and Allison is too...
View Article#2464: Frank Amedia
Touch Heaven Ministries is an Ohio-based ministry founded and run by televangelistFrank Amedia and his wife Lorilee. Amedia is best known for being Donald Trump’s “liaison for Christian policy”. He...
View Article#2465: Hakima Amri & Georgetown University’s Medical School
“Quackademic medicine” is an expression used to describe the tendency of once ostensibly science-based medical schools and academic medical centers to embrace quackery, often as a result of marketing...
View Article#2466: Joyce Anastasi
In our previous post, we discussed the phenomenon known as “quackademic medicine”– the inroads woo and quackery have made into medical educationand its potentially insidious effects. Here’s more....
View Article#2467: Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn
Kip AndersonWhat the Health (WtH) is a 2017 Netflix “documentary” advertised as “The Health Film That Health Organizations Don’t Want You To See”, which advocates a plant-based diet and attempts to...
View Article#2468: Barb Anderson
Barbara Anderson is a Minnesota-based anti-gay activist and former close ally of Michele Bachmann. She is a long-time “researcher” for the Minnesota Family Council, head of the anti-gay hate group...
View Article#2469: Kevin Anderson
Anderson with David McNabbKevin Anderson is a director of the Creation Research Societyand a young earth creationist. Apparently, he also has a real degree in microbiology, which makes him one of...
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