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This page is an archive because we have no bot functioning to archive our to-do list that has grown to immense proportions since mid-2009. I've decided to archive anything before our 600th poll. Pibot only does threads (sections with signatures). I'll get out my Python manual and maybe put this on my list of shit to do as moderator if elected. I'm thinking archiving anything older than 14 days for the bot. Anyway, I have a yak waiting right now. Good luck cutting through this jungle.
Planaria Icon.png Immortality's fun, except when you become a two-headed monster Talk to me 02:47, 2 January 2013 (UTC)


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14An article specifically on Omission bias. Prevalent and potent poison to human thinking.
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2Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Made the United States Navy, especially the nuclear submarine/aircraft carrier components, what they are today. While he has a ginormous skeptic and extremely critical of the 'blindly follow procedure' mentality that infects the technical departments of militaries, his interest to RationalWiki is that his program was SO successful that much like TJhe inadvertently locked both U.S. commercial and military fission nuclear power firmly into suboptimal pseudoengineering. Why does the United States use light water, partial or completely pressured, highly enriched 2nd-gen nuclear reactors with as much operator-input as possible even though there are better models and methods of maintaining them? Because Rickover's legacy, that's why.
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3Pseudoengineering. As opposed to out-and-out pseudoscience, pseudoengineering is a method of engineering that uses sound scientific principles but poor engineering practices that can't be justified via cost or time excuses and are usually motivated by politics or pluralistic ignorance. The Strategic Defense Initiative is a prime example of pseudoengineering.
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12Military worship hysteria. Distinct though related to the military woo suggestion below. The tendency for society to be reluctant to criticize soldiers and military personnel because military.
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8Paul Johnson. British triumphalist historian who pushes American exceptionalism as far as it can go without getting into pseudohistory. I've had more than one history teacher/professor push him as the conservative counterpart to Zinn.
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7Warranted conspiracy theories both as a category (for things like the Reichstag fire, COINTEL Pro, Henry Knox's Sons of Liberty, etc.) and explaining how they differ from garden-variety conspiracy theories.
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10Insane Clown Posse. Because magnets.
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4Lynn Andrews, a shaman healer and mystic who peddles all sorts of falsehoods. Her webshite
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5David Hart. He's this theologist who attacked new wave atheists such as Dawkins and then defined God as: "an absolute plenitude of actuality".
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5Senator Bernie Sanders, on occasion of him "exposing the Illuminati" from the Senate floor
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6An article on state legislative bills intended to push creationism, especially the shitload that have been proposed since the beginning of legislative sessions in 2011
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2The Fort Hood shooting is now getting coverage because wingnuts believe Obama the FBI has a double standard for "not treating it as a terrorist act."
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0Someone coined "Because liberals!" before we did. [1]
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5Mata Amritanandamayi aka 'The Hugging Saint' with a bizarre cult of personality.
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7George Orwell's Politics and the English Language, arguably the best anti-bullshit guide there is.
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3The value added tax aka. sales tax, consumption tax, Pigovian tax, yadda yadda...
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16The Medieval Warm Period. Proof that global warming is fake!
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3Jerry Boykin, for any number of reasons but especially because of his recent role in theHuma Abedin debacle
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8I've been meaning to do this for a while: write an article on vertebrates. There's at least one red link to "invertebrate" (in the mollusc article), and we need to have something good on the "unbridgable gap" between something without a backbone and something with. Helpful link.
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7The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), anyone? It's unambiguously homophobic, exhibits rampant double-standards in regards to male and female sexuality as well as sex and violence, and refuses to conclusively reveal who it is composed of, among other things. We might as well have a page on the documentary that points all this out, This Film is Not Yed Rated, too.
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5Mary Daly. Wrote about misogyny in the Roman Catholic Church and organized religion in general, but also subscribed to lesbian separatist utopia fantasies.
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1If anyone here can speak Portuguese, please enlighten us on the antics of Josue Yrion.
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13Needs to be done, for Thunderf00t's sake. Argumentum ad YouTube.
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6Ageism
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6Solyndra! It's the new ACORN and part of the eco-fascist conspiracy! Run!
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3Christopher Horner, who's quite butthurt over James Hansen.
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3Margaret McBride, excommunicated for allowing an abortion on a woman who would have died should she have remained pregnant
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9RW, I am disappoint. Why no Ernst Haeckel?
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4Gay adoption is a civil rights issue that currently redirects to same-sex marriage. Might need a better title, like same-sex parenthood.
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5Feminists For Life arguably an oxymoron as it contains Caribou Barbie multiple ideologues against women's rights.
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13Jihad Watch, one of Breivik's enablers
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3Oliver Stone and his assorted oddities.
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0Hippotherapy? (See WP's article.)
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4BP. Why?
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5We have an article for Audio woo, why not Video woo?
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6Paul Cameron - anti-gay loony and "expert" used by American Family Association
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10Origin of deluvian myths. There are flood myths from around the world, not just the Noachid one. Creationists unsurprisingly jump on this as "proof" the Deluge was global.
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6For our economics fans, Dutch disease.
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0British People's Party: this lot, another bunch of white supremacists. Allied withWorld Union of National Socialists (maybe they need an articletoo).
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10The awesome developments at Vostok Station probably merit an article. It even has its own Hitler conspiracy.
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5All this talk of the Higgs boson reminds me of Dr Marietta Higgs, a dodgy UK paediatrician who promoted some dubious diagnostic technique to do with poking kid's bums and seeing how much their sphincter dilated, as an indicator of whether child abuse had occurred. This led to a great many children been taken away from their parents and a general scandal. It was also tied to general ballyho about alleged ritual child abuse in the Orkney islands and something sinister to do with Thomas the Tank Engine. Thoroughly Bad Medicine.
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2The Baby Tooth Survey, which lead to several environmental regulations
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8An analysis and description of deprogramming
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7Nexus Magazine. It's a vast collection of conspiracy theories, alt medicine, stories from readers about "what is really going on", and of course, ads selling just about every crank product you can imagine. A good example of Crank magnetism, I thought it should have an article.
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22A Sex woo category? I can't believe there isn't one already. We have "male enhancement", g-spots, a whole bunch of herbal and homeopathic medicines, beliefs like coitus interruptus, oriental meditation techniques, the list goes on
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10Income inequality was already requested below - why not the Gini coefficient?
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6Sinéad O'Connor, a perfect example of how the Roman Catholic Church can still psychologically destroy the life of someone who tried to speak the truth to the ignorant majority.
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8Henry Hyde, one of the most heartless figures (and that's saying something) in the history of the GOP.
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25Guide to the Book of Mormon.
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5Bright green environmentalism.
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9I'm surprised we have no article on the Thought-terminating cliché. It's a major contributor to extremism of all forms.
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5DSHEA, the Dietary supplement health and education act of 1994, which regulates what claims supplement/alternative medicine medicine products can make. Also codified the unregulated nature of supplements.
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7Depression, especially the purported connection it has with atheism and liberalism and everything else.
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1Hipsters.
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3Ho'oponopono, a Hawaiian cultural practice appropriated by woosters. In its wooish incarnation, it was allegedly able to "heal a ward of mentally ill criminals".[2] Endorsed by Law of Attraction proponent Joe Vitale.
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11Time for lulz: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
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6I think someone should make an article on the Congo, considering how utterly devastating that war was and how few people in the First World know about it.
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9Considering most of the guys at RationalWiki are a bunch of sex-deprived assholes, it's shocking we haven't written on Karen Stollznow, Kylie Sturgess, Catherine Deveny, Jennifer Ouellette, Rachael Dunlop, Susan Blackmore, Vicki Hyde, Iszi Lawrence, Rebecca Watson and the Skepchicks yet.
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7Microbes on the Ark. Nothing on Noah and the amoeba?
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18A look at infanticide, the pro-lifers' main snarl word.
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1Source Field - not the sane version, but the cracktastic one, with capitals.
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3The Health and Social Care Bill, David Cameron and co.'s attempt to reform the NHS. It has the wonderful status of having zero support by the medical establishment, who are sure it's a mass privatization scheme.
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8Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the 2005 landmark case on banning inappropriate video games to children without parental supervision. Assfly and the PTC went on a tirade when it didn't go their way.
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3The Setsuden movement, basically Earth Hour on steroids (and more effective) in the wake of Fukushima.
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4 Cold-EEZE, as in that new common cold medication. Not sure what to think of this: it says it'shomoeopathic but also approved by physicians. Is this just the placebo effect or what? I'm not sure.
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4Ophelia Benson could probably do with an article.
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7ACTA, or put an area for it in the SOPA article.
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3 Mississippi personhood amendment. Now that it's over and done with, I'm shocked nobody's done anything on it. Good thing the voters realized that zygotes don't give a shit about much.
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10John Cook, the evangelical owner of award-winning climate denial-debunker Skeptical Science. Yes, you heard that right.
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11Popular science advocate Jim Al-Khalili! Still waiting for him to eat his shorts.
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4 Do Not Open (2007 book). Provides a kind of an "at a glance" view of various pseudosciences and conspiracies (sans anti-allopathy), although it sometimes reads like an Ancient Aliens episode.
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2Might be relevant to FCC/censorship discussions: shock jock radio host Howard Stern.
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1David Evans and his organisation Science Speak - global warming denialist and conspiracy theorist wrapped up in one (http://za.news.yahoo.com/global-warming-global-domination-163100611.html)
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10Time zero, i.e. the time "before" the Big Bang. Not the Doctor Who thing. That is, use this article to discuss naturalistic hypotheses on the cause of the Big Bang.
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1Brominated flame retardants.
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6 The Denisovans, as in the "Woman X" found in Siberia who may have inhabited the area throughout eastern Asia.
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2Gabriel's Revelation
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8The Black Sea deluge in 5400 BC. I've heard it may have had some relation to the origin of the myth of the Ark, despite being some 3000 years apart.
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7Camille Paglia, the Ayn Rand of feminists. There's a bunch of other "anti-feminist" feminists as well.
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4The Vega test or Vega machine[3][4][5], by reader request.
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1UrsuAdams ("Donnie" Adams), a Planet X-spinning YouTuber with a fixation on Neumayer Station. Recent hijinks include popularizing a fake picture of a "Heavy Mass Object" and accusing amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave of being a liar after Musgrave pointedoutthat the fake is actually 'shopped from one of his pictures.
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4Socionics
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5We need an article specifically on organized religion. That or I need to stop playing Civ4.
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5Let's continue on with our liberal boogeypersons: Rosie O'Donnell.
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1The Science Wars - Science (and Alan Sokal) vs. postmodern drivel
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7The ousting of secular, pro-Western Mohammad Mosaddegh, one of the dumbest foreign policy decisions ever made.
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4Groups like Veterans for Peace, the moral opposite of Chickenhawks.
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4Patrick Moore (environmentalist), founder-turned-critic of Greenpeace and staunchly anti-science.
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2R. Joseph Hoffmann, an "unbelieving" scholar of theology who has attracted recent attention for blog posts flinging dung at the New Atheists, but whose history of suck goes back much further.

[edit] Older suggestions

These are older suggestions, but perhaps they still haven't been made yet. Why not give them some love?
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12Standard & Poor's, Given how much they have been in the news recently...
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5Victor Senchenko, author of Revelations of a Human Space Navigator (no, it's not science fiction) and an atheist
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9Leslie Keane - Reporter who wrote a book on UFOs. Poses as a moderate, but is fundamentally a kook.
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10Medical Hypotheses - Controversial non-peer-reviewed journal taken over by quacks, mostly of the anti-vax and AIDS denialist stripes. Wikipedia entry
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9Richard 'Brad'shaw Watson II and his Planet Nestor who managed to get a conference poster of his ( http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/exep_exoMtgPosters.cfm / http://PlanetNestor.blogspot.com ) mentioned on the JPL NASA website
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9Viktor Grebennikov, insect-powered anti-gravity wp:Viktor Grebennikov
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10Two suns or second sun - see http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=two+suns (one of the incarnations ofPlanet X/Nibiru claims)
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6Bahram Katirai (1948-2010), a Baha'i crank who claimed, among other things, thatgalaxies contain only one star (the rest of the stars of the Milky Way are actually planets, asteroids and clouds of dust reflecting sunlight)
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7Project Avalon - http://projectavalon.net/, also have a look at their forum
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10John Lenard Walson, a guy who claims that he has made pictures of (alien) spaceships in Earth orbit with his telescope[6] (possibly known as GRIDKEEPER (channel) on YouTube)
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6XMRV (see ERV's coverage)
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8Wayne Herschel, a South African crank author (website). Tried to hoax Above Top Secret and it backfired (just search for "Wayne Herschel hoax").
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13John Lear - thinks that the Moon has atmosphere and aliens live there; wears atin foil shako
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9Aztec UFO hoax, relevant to the "FBI memo" that recently made headlines[7] (no, it was not about Roswell) Seewp:Frank Scully.
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8Roberto DeMattei, President of Italian National Research Council and a complete wingnut: japanese tzunami is god's terrible yet benevolent voice, Roman Empire failed due to homosexuals and Eden is an historical reality.
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12Exclusive Brethren, an Australian Christian fundamentalist sect [8]
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6Saint Michael's World Apostolate - some lady in New York had visions from Jesus and Mother Mary about current (then) world events. They now have newsletters and send you a blessed rose petal if you are interested.
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7Manly Palmer Hall, a mystic Freemason author[9] Deserves a mention at least because of his name. :)
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6Colleen Thomas, a possibly mentally ill woman who has made a variety of nutty claims, including that Obama is an alien lizard[10]. Russia Today saw fit to interview her.
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4Peter Watts border incident - Police brutality, mysteriously disappearing tapes, and the heinous crime of not falling down quickly enough, all on the US border. Why have an article on the incident? Because authoritarianism is one of our targets, and this is a notable incident.
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6Rage Reduction therapy - just read this rage-inducing summary at Science-Based Medicine
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5Universe - the Cosmology Quest, apparently a documentary about scientists who think the Big Bang theory is wrong. This goes right with the anti-science part of our mission. You can watch it here.
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6Conspiracy of Silence - a documentary pushed by some conspiracy theorists as "proof," needs a good spankingdebunking. Listed on Wikipedia as "Franklin child prostitution ring allegations."
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7Dore - festering scum peddling autism woo.Press release.
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4megabrain store A virtual store that sells a lot of woo products
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8Allison DuBois - The real, not the fictional character. She claims that she has psychic abilities
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1EOC Institute [11]
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7Rhema - weird-arse fundie sect founded by Kenneth Hagin. Anyone from Perth, Western Australia will have encountered these loons.
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0Sue Lowden - Thinks we should lower health care costs by bartering with our doctors.
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6Kevin B. MacDonald - professor specializing in evolutionary psychology who appears to have gone off thedeep end
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9Gene Duplication - Extreme pwnage against those claiming mutation can't add data.
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4St Malachy & the prediction of the Popes. He gets a mention under Pope, but worthy of more?
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3Edward Babinski - interesting-looking blogger who moved from fundamentalism to agnosticism.[12] and [13] might be useful.
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7Aga Khan - leader of a sect of 20 millions Muslims, deserves a page.
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7Terra Preta a two-in-one carbon sink and sustainable fertilizer.
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11David Sewell - mastermind behind PRATTs likethis andthis; author of books such as The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics
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8Aculife, Help strengthen your health with the latest ancient technology!Aculife strengthens the immune system against Hypertension, Insomnia, Fatigue, Asthma, Ulcers, Hemorrhoids, High Blood Pressure, Rheumatism, Muscle Pain and many more common ailments. The Aculife is compact and lightweight enough to be taken virtually anywhere. You can even treat simple ailments like stiff aching backs, muscles and neck from travel or strenuous workouts.
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5 Conservapedia:Conservapedian economics (Conservapedia plans to teach it in fall 2009)
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