List of Internet kooks
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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.
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[edit] Wingnut (or Moonbat) cloggers
- 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.
- 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.
- Milton Kleim — early promoter of neo-Nazism on Usenet.
- Eric S. Raymond — Selectively insane when it comes to politics, climate change, and race; largely competent in terms of software and related issues.
- Victor Ivanoff (aka Franc Hoggle and Felch Grogan) -- formerly a reasonably sane commenter on atheist boards; went absolutely nuts after Elevator"gate" and started to viciously and obsessively attack PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, and other bloggers he doesn't like. Probably an MRA; definitely batshit insane and possibly Australia's answer to Dennis Markuze, or perhaps the Peter Joseph to Markuze's Alex Jones. Runs a blog called Grey Lining (no link -- hate speech rule) where he rants obsessively about the targets of his rage. His rather masturbatory behavior has been named "hoggling"[1] by the people he ridicules.
[edit] YouTube vloggers
See the main article on this topic: RationalWiki:Vlogroll
- VenomFangX - Noted creationist weirdo. Was apparently shut down when his parents found out about his activities.
- NephilimFree - Anti-evolution ranter, fan of Conservapedia.
- Shockofgod - Friend and confidant of both NephilimFree and Conservapadia man-child, Conservative. Frequently makes videos on Conservapedia making comment on his videos on Conservapedia after Conservative asks him to comment on Conservapedia. Shock, as he is fondly referred to as, is known for his high levels of machismo.[2]
[edit] Wikibased woggers
- Jimbo Wales—an Ayn Rand follower and former pr0n merchant who thinks any Internet kook should be able to edit an encyclopedia.
- Ed Poor—moonie; former wikipedia admin de-sysopped for POV-pushing on the Unification Church article; conservapedia editor
- Philip J. Rayment—owner of A Storehouse of Knowledge, a YEC wiki.
- Andrew Schlafly—and a supporting cast of other YEC religious right cranks at Conservapedia.
- Zachary Martin, aka "Zarnacy," the "protoprophet" of Maratreanism, who edits at a number of wikis as User:Maratrean.
[edit] Pseudoscience ...psoggers?
- Alex Chiu—Marketer of life extension cuff links.
- Alex Jones—Conspiracy theory loon. On top of having two websites to promote his insanity, also has a radio show.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dr. John A. Davison—Professor of Biology at the University of Vermont who believes the Theory of Evolution is a hoax.
- John Duffield—British IT graduate with a physics obsession and a vanity published book "Relativity+". Frequents most science fora (until banning) pushing his own version of relativity; usual handle is 'Farsight'.
- Joseph Farah-Founder of WorldNetDaily and promoter of almost every conspiracy known to man.
- Robert W. Felix—Cosmic rays explain everything!
- Ted Holden—Creationist and Velikovskyite known for cyclical trolling of "talk.origins". A Usenet crank going way back. Ted currently posts at the right wing website Free Republic, possibly under the handles wendy1946, GodGunsGuts, or varmintman (or possibly two or three of those)[3][4][5] and is known for pushing not only Young Earth Creation garbage, but also claiming that science leads to communism and atheism, and that AIDS is a conspiracy created by the government and HIV doesn't cause AIDS. Ted also spent a few years trolling comp.lang.ada. Despite his otherwise tenable standpoint - that the programming language ADA is a failure - his attitude and methods alienated all other readers of the group [6].
- David Icke—Weird. Not purely Internet - all over the weirdscape.
- Ramanand Jhingade—Homeopathy and woo defender at WO, CZ and anywhere else he can grid his axe.
- John Kwok—Anti-science and evolution troll.
- 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.
- Nancy Lieder—Frumpy channeler who hears aliens talking to her in her head. Runs the New Age apocalyptic cult ZetaTalk.
- Gene Ray—An old guy with schizophrenia. 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.
- Jack Sarfatti—A PhD physicist and Geller-gawker in the 70s, a flat out loony on Usenet in the 90s.
- Dana Ullman—Homeopath and author, but so notorious for his online dickery he was awarded his own Internet law.
- Frank R. Wallace—the now-deceased promoter of Neo-Tech.
- Sanford Wallace—the king of Internet spam (and proud of it, apparently.)
- Bill Gaede-Insists that "mathematical physics" is a religion, and science should only deal with material objects as he understands them, that forces involve double helices (that somehow are more tangible, despite being unobserved), and that the human race is inevitable doomed due to something called a "population pyramid."
- Jeff Rense - Conspiracy monger and woo-pusher.
[edit] Religious evangeloggers
- Paul Vogel—probably a pseudonym; cosmotheist; blind fanatic; regularly projects his own behaviors onto others; pathological affinity for the word 'ilk'; got banned from wikipedia for persistent POV-pushing
- Bevets—Persistent creationist Fark troll.
- Kent Hovind—Currently jailed creationist propagandist, fundamentalist wingnut, and tax protester.
- Jason Gastrich—Obsessive Biblical inerrantist with a knack for not going away when ordered. Shoot-on-sight banned at Wikipedia. Was given a trial unbanning and managed to get himself rebanned that very same day for sockpuppetry.[7]
- 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.
- Yerranos—Owner/manager of this site. Just weird, not your average YEC fundamentalist but much worse.
- Alan O'Reilly—Creationist, geocentrist, huge racist. Involved with the British National Party.
- Diana Napolis, Internet handle Karen "Curio" Jones — Ex-therapist who believes there is a vast Satanic conspiracy attempting to cover up widespread ritual abuse. Known for harassing psychologist Elizabeth Loftus on-line and spent a year in jail for stalking Hollywood celebrities.
[edit] Economic doomers
- Michael T. Snyder - The world is going to end every day since 2008...just you wait! Then Jesus is going to kick butt.
- John Williams - The government is manipulating data to placate the sheeple, which he shows by...using government produced data.
- Tyler Durden/Dan Ivandjiiski - Goldman Sachs is a cabal that manipulates the US economy in order to steal from everyone.
[edit] Probably all of the above-gers
Please consider all possibilities before mentioning your fame on the talk page.
[edit] External links
- See the Wikipedia article on notable Usenet personalities.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ There was actually a literal masturbation situation involved, which by all indications proved nothing to anyone except that Ivanoff is kind of really weird.
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrW-ZUjyWmU
- ↑ [1] wendy1946 accused of being Holden, but denied
- ↑ [2] GodGunsGuts accused of being Holden - though GodGunsGuts later misspells Holden twice - who then posts to wendy1946 that his accuser is conflating the two of them; wendy doesn't respond. Also, metmom and Stultis doubt GodGunsGuts is Holden
- ↑ [3] user posts a quote by varmintman to GodGunsGuts, saying the original writer was Holden
- ↑ [4] The FAQ for c.l.a. contains an entry for Ted.
- ↑ Jason Gastrich's RFA at Wikipedia