List of Internet kooks
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*Frank R. Wallace -- the now-deceased promoter of [[Neo-Tech]]. | *Frank R. Wallace -- the now-deceased promoter of [[Neo-Tech]]. | ||
*Sanford Wallace -- the king of Internet spam (and proud of it, apparently.) | *Sanford Wallace -- the king of Internet spam (and proud of it, apparently.) | ||
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Revision as of 03:07, 24 April 2009
The following is a list of internet kooks -- people who have widely disseminated their woo across the intarwebs. Some are also kooks in real life. Some do not technically exist.
- Alexander Abian -- Insane math professor from Iowa State University (deceased). Believed in massive rearrangement of the solar system. Was published -- in the Weekly World News.
- Bevets -- Persistent creationist Fark troll.
- Ahmet Cosar -- the operator of early Usenet spambot "Serdar Argic"; went on a mad spam frenzy in 1994 pushing anti-Armenian hatred, accusing the Armenians of perpetuating a genocide on Turks and Azeris.
- Andrew Chiu -- Marketer of life extension cuff links.
- Eric Dondero -- A nuke-the-Middle East Republican fanatic who thinks he is a libertarian. This particular bundle of contradictions is actually not all that uncommon but Dondero is hyperactive about spamming every Internet forum imaginable with his barely-coherent wingnuttery. He attacks big-L Libertarians for not being pro-war, libertarian-leaning Democrats for not being Republicans, anti-war Republicans for not being real Republicans, and his former boss, Ron Paul (who fired him), for just about everything.
- Jason Gastrich -- Obsessive Biblical inerrantist with a knack for not going away when ordered. Shoot-on-sight banned at Wikipedia.
- Ted Holden -- Creationist and Velikovskyite known for cyclical trolling of "talk.origins". A Usenet crank going way back.
- Kent Hovind -- Currently jailed creationist propagandist, fundamentalist wingnut, and tax protester.
- David Icke -- Weird. Not purely internet - all over the weirdscape.
- Karol Florian Madera -- Schizophrenic Canadian amateur radio operator who bills himself as "Radio Canada." He operates a station on the high frequency radio bands and makes it his aim to slander U.S. citizens nearly every day over the airwaves. He has threatened the U.S. ambassador to Canada and a 13 year old boy from Minnesota, and expressed hopes that someone would deploy roadside bombs against Americans, and stated he would give Al-Qaeda aid and comfort. Mr. Madera also has a website that slanders those he identifies as his enemies, most of whom are American amateur radio operators.
- Ray Martinez -- Self Described "Old Earth Young Biosphere Protestant Evangelical Paulinist." Troll at talk.origins as well as the CvE forums and other creationist websites. Tried his hand at Conservapedia for a while but took his ball and went home after his particular brand of wingnuttery was found to be unacceptable. Believes that the Bible is innerrant, that the Great Pyramid is a physical representation of the Bible, that Atlantis exists in the Atlantic Ocean and that its existence is proven by the fact that eels return to the Atlantic to spawn. Has been on the verge of publishing a paper that will demolish Darwinism for about 5 - 7 years now. All questions that seem to undermine his arguments will be answered in his paper. A Ray Martinez Dictionary is available to translate his various positions.
- Archimedes Plutonium -- Janitor at Dartmouth College; known for a bizarre fascination with the plutonium atom and a series of bogus mathematical proofs designed to establish him as the greatest genius on Earth.
- Gene Ray -- An old guy. Likes to rant about time and cubes. Nobody knows what he's talking about, but college debating societies have invited him to campus to serve as target practice.
- Andrew Schlafly -- and a supporting cast of other YEC religious right cranks at Conservapedia.
- Jack Sarfatti -- A PhD physicist and Geller-gawker in the 70s, a flat out loony on Usenet in the 90s.
- Yerranos -- Owner/manager of this site. Just weird, not your average YEC fundamentalist but much worse.
- Frank R. Wallace -- the now-deceased promoter of Neo-Tech.
- Sanford Wallace -- the king of Internet spam (and proud of it, apparently.)
External links
- See the Wikipedia article on notable Usenet personalities.