#2470: Marvin Anderson
Yes, he appears to be an MD, but Marvin Anderson is more than anything an antivaccineconspiracy theorist and promoter of deeply questionable treatments (MD training does, after all, not necessarily...
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#2471: Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson is a naturopathand not a doctor, although many of his fans seem confused about that. And Anderson does have fans– indeed, Anderson currently seems to have established himself as a...
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#2472: Tracy Anderson (?)
Tracy Anderson is a celebrity personal trainer and guru who offers staggeringly expensive training and food programs to Hollywood and other celebrities. As a fitness guru, she does what fitness gurus...
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#2473: Valdas Anelauskas and the Pacifica Forum
The Pacifica Forum was a discussion group in Eugene, Oregon, originally hosted by retired University of Oregon professor Orval Etter(since deceased). The purpose of the forum, which met at the...
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#2474: Ruth Angela
Young-earth creationistsstruggle to understand the basics of the theory of evolution, and although we’ve had ample opportunity to deal with creationists, there are other groups that struggle with the...
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#2475: Jake Angeli
A.k.a. Q ShamanA.k.a. Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley (real name)A.k.a. Qanon the BarbarianA.k.a. Vanilla the Hun Ok, so this guy really needs no introduction, but Jake Angeli is in any case a conspiracy...
View Article#2476: Andrew Anglin
The Daily Stormer (TDS) is a neo-Nazi and white supremacist websitefounded by neo-nazi troll Andrew Anglin, and … well, we’re not really going to spend much time on the details here. The website...
View Article#2477: Vasken Aposhian
Hurair Vasken Aposhian is a toxicologist and emeritus professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of Arizona, and although he has legitimate credentials, Aposhian is a somewhat infamous...
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#2478: Julaine Appling
The Wisconsin Family Council (WFC) is, as the name suggests, an extremist Taliban satelite group that advocates and lobbies for Christian fundamentalist policy, notably advocating for corporal...
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#2479: Frank Arguello
Frank Arguello is a cancer researcher, MD and author, most famous for his promotion of “atavistic oncology” and “atavistic chemotherapy”, which is silly pseudoscience based on misunderstanding...
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#2480: Dave Asprey
The bulletproof diet is a version of the “Paleo” diet constructed and promoted by web-marketer and blogger Dave Asprey. The basic idea is that you should eat the way you intuit how they ate back in the...
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#2481: Julia Assante
Julia Assante is an author, mediumand spiritualistwho claims to have been a mediumand psychicsince 1977. She also appears to be somewhat successful – her fees are steep – presumably, in part, because...
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#2482: John Astin
John Astin is not among the more flamboyant loons in our Encyclopedia. Rather, Astin – a songwriter, “spiritual teacher” and health psychologist affiliated with Santa Clara and Notre Dame de Namur...
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#2483: Perry Atkinson
Perry Atkinson is a wingnut fundie and host of the TheDoveTV/radio programs “Mornings on theDove”, “Afternoons on theDove” and “Focus Today”, and the kind of guy whose outlook on the world is nicely...
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#2484: Andrew Auernheimer
A.k.a. weev We can’t stomach writing more than a brief note about this unsavory piece of tripe, but Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer, best known by his pseudonym “weev”, is a hacker and an altright,...
View Article#2485: Lynne August
MD is a professional degree, and although medical school will equip their students with plenty of knowledge and skill to diagnose and treat various conditions, it is not an education in scientific or...
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#2486: Laurel Austin
Few versions of quackery is quackier – or more dangerous – than the insane nonsense of using bleach products to try to “cure” anything whatsoever, be it COVID-19 or autism. Yet the toxic bleach product...
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#2487: Josh Axe
Joshua Lee Axe is not a medical doctor, but a celebrity quack who practices chiropractic and naturopathy in Tennessee.He has, for what it’s worth, degrees in both fields(though his chiropractic license...
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#2488: Shiva Ayyadurai
Vellayappa Ayyadurai Shiva is an absolutely deranged engineer, politician (he ran for Senate for Massachusetts as an independent in 2018 and as a Republican in 2020), entrepreneur, possibly budding...
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#2489: Bruce Baar
Naturopathy is bullshit, and since he has already jettisoned integrity and reason, naturopath Bruce Baar has decided to run the full course of woo. Baar is a promoter of vibrational medicineand – his...
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