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2Ernest Becker. Here is his website. Wikipedia. Author of Denial of Death.
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7Thilo Sarrazin, who believes that Jews are genetically superior than Arabs, and that the solution to integrating Muslims is to halt all immigration and cut off their state benefits. (Oh, he's also a popular eurosceptic German Social Democrat, because Germany.)
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6Geomancy, the art and "science" of predicting the future by tossing and then interpreting dirt.
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3We have articles about Andrew Weil and Dr. Oz, so why not write one about Dean Ornish? [1] Orac
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6Sulforaphane, an experimental cancer drug (found in many vegetables) being touted as a cancer cure by CAM promoters. Naturalnews
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5Gottlob Frege could use a page. He may have been one of the founders of analytical philosophy, but he was also a raging Nazi.
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6"Social engineering," used to legitimately describe government/business practices, or alternatively as loaded language by cranks.
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4The hilarious Project A119, or the "nuke the moon"[wp] plan, which still ushers conspiracy theories today.
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3Ingrid Rimland, former Nazi hunter and current Holocaust denier, as well as a pal of Ernst Zundel's (on Wikipedia).
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6William Bengston, a sociologist who claims he can cure cancer by waving his hands, thus doing... something with energy. [2] [3] [4][5]
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5Dennis Sewell, who has drunken the Hitler and evolution/scientism kool-aid to the point that he believes that the British welfare state iseugenics in disguise. Seriously.
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3"Unfunded liabilities," a term misused by certain ideologues and think tanks to inflate the US debt burden multiple times than what is currently estimated. (So privatize pensions and Medicare now!)
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5We should have an article on holistic dentistry.
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8Manchukuo, Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, 1931-1945. (On Wikipedia) P.S.: We've already got Vichy France.
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4The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, or how Japan "wanted" to "liberate" Asia during WW2. (On Wikipedia)
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6Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister/dictator during World War II. (On Wikipedia)
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2NESARA (National Economic Security and Recovery Act), a economic reform proposal that later was appropriated as a conspiracy theory/scam by victims of the Omega Trust scam as the "National Economic Security and Reformation Act". (NESARA on Wikipedia.) We can also comment on the "feasibility" of the actual idea.
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4Gavin Menzies, who promotes the idea that the Chinese got to America before Colombus. Fu Sang or 1421 theory might be better titles.
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3Van Jones, if you still remember him.
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2This looks like an awfully fun website to add to our media section. (American Vision)
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6La Griffe du Lion, the pseudonym of a (pseudo)sociologists beloved by white nationalists, the "human biodiversity" crowd, and other assorted racist nutters. [6]
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10Immune system boosting, a ubiquitous CAM marketing slogan.
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3Vincent Cheung, yet another sociopath Calvinist with a god complex.
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2The faith healer João Teixeira de Faria, known to his followers as John of God, particularly now that Oprah did a special on him.
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6A stand alone Bioshock article?
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4Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a Romanian politician who founded the Iron Guard, an extremist far-right political movement.
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2The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, an organisation with a journal and website (worldhealth.net). Worldhealth.net apparently has a group promoting orthomolecular medicine as a partner. Their forum seems to reference NaturalNews frequently and there's a thread by a doctor which bashes HFCS, GMO foods, and aspartame. Review on about.com
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2Quo Vadis?, Henryk Sienkiewicz's famous pro-Christianity novel.
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11Thor Heyerdahl, known for his Kon Tiki[wp] expedition and his theories of Polynesian migration.
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3Leonard Horowitz, DMD -- self-help author and AIDS conspiracist, coined the term "Solfeggio frequencies[wp]" for healing tones attuned to the music of the spheres, and capable of repairing DNA. TOW article has a "reference" to a self-published (by AuthorHouse[wp]) book by one D.D. Hulse, whose blurb includes: "...how I went from being a fundamentalist preacher to being a developer of healing techniques using tuning forks."
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3We need an article on the emergency managers being used in Michigan. There's hardly a more authoritarian position in American government. They have no real oversight, and they can do whatever they want to the city, regardless of the will of the people or their elected officials. They're essentially mini-dictators installed to control townships.
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8Joyce Meyer; yet another televangelist who begs for money from her followers under the ostensible penalty of God's disfavor andspends it on private jets and Mercedes-Benzes.
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11Boiling frog — particularly the idea that introducing beliefs or political measures gradually is likely to meet less resistance than doing so abruptly. See Wikipedia article.
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3Richard Swinburne, one of the more sophisticated apologists.
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2The American Council on Science and Health (or ACSH), a "consumer education consortium" funded by various large corporations.SourceWatch article Added: See also the mess on Talk:Skepticism.
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7Fathers' rights, a movement related with the MRAs but much much more mainstream.
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3The Robin Williams movie Patch Adams. While it doesn't directly push pseudoscience, it pushes an attitude and pseudoskepticism towards medical science indistinguishable from most alternative medicine promoters.
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7The "Olduvai theory" that blackouts became normal last year and we're going to hell in a handbasket. Refuting chart.
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9Chemical castration, increasingly considered as a crime policy.
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4There's nothing here about Eugene Podkletnov? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov
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11Antigravity. It ties in with a variety of crankery, like John Hutchison, "lifters", UFOs, Podkletnov, super secret aircraft, etc.
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3Since we have an article on Satoshi Kanazawa, we may as well have one on Shintaro Ishihara-- basically the Japanese equivalent of the pundits on Fox News. Also Tarō Asō, who wants the elderly to die.
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9We don't have an article on general Misanthropy yet? For shame...
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2Arab — currently a fork page, but we should have an article. Arab ethnic & cultural identity is pretty important in Middle Eastern politics (e.g. the Arab League, Arab Spring, Pan-Arabism), plus there are a few misconceptions to be debunked (e.g. it's not synonymous with Islam). Plus it would complement our articles on other ethnic groupings (caucasians, black people, Jews, Native Americans).
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1Tim Ferriss, perennial slinger of high expectations of success for low effort in works such as The Four Hour Workweek and The Four Hour Body.
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3John Mackey, current CEO of Whole Foods for accepting GMO foods at an organic store, Obamacare comparison to fascism andType #5 global warming denialist.
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11Hurricane Sandy denialism. Yes, this is a real thing, I kid you not. Hell, we have an articlededicated JUST to the hurricane. You know, the cocktail of conspiracy theories, global warming denialism, and just general Congressional vileness.
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4The argument used by racists that George Washington Carver stole his ideas from Edmund Ruffin should be debunked if possible.
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2The disgrace to civilized society that is Mark Steyn.
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3We tend to mention Roger Ebert a lot around here.
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3John Bolton deserves to be mocked for a long, long time.
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4Missing Universe Museum (http://missinguniversemuseum.com). Found this retarded YEC website by way of Something Awful.
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3Dr Brad Harrub of Focus Press and YouTube. A Ph.D. 'scientist' who only seems to do Christian apologetics
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4The utterly terrifying duumvirate of reactionary state representatives, Charles Davidson and Charles Fuqua. Both of them support slavery and theocracy. In the 21st century, I might point out.
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3Wafa Sultan. Her criticism of Islam is probably genuine. Her support of batshit fucking crazies, not so much.
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5The born alive rule, an interesting little bugger.
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2Warren Farrell, top MRA and pedo defender.
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2Oryx and Crake - together with its sequel, The Year of the Flood, in which Margaret Atwood shows a near-future dystopian view of bio-technology and religious eco-activists. Move over, Handmaid's Tale, you need bringing up to date with a whiff of cyberpunk.
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2Halos, another art staple that Christianity totally ripped off.
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2Sheldon Adelson - single largest private donor in history... all 8 of the candidates he backed lost, costing him some $50 million.
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4Creation Evidence Museum - [7]
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10Consumer Reports - The magazine that on occasion exposes woo.
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4Former Eagle Chickenhawk Joe Walsh (this one, not this one), current IL GOTPrep seeking re-election for anti-abortion nuttery and criticizing disabled female veteran Tammy Duckworth for talking too much about her military service and her two X chromosomes.
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2Michael Moore Hates America. The title implies that the film consists of an angry wingnut ranting about Moore being a commie and verbally-fellating George W. Bush, but interestingly, the film isn't really anything like that. It's tone is actually very collected and sensible, and most of its criticisms of Moore are valid. Not all people who criticise liberalism are like Limbaugh and Coulter.
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9History of atheism/freethinking/agnosticism etc., rather than just a lowly stub. Also Ibn al-Rawandi.
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3Naomi Wolf.
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2Scaremongering "documentary" The Demographic Winter.
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5Ordo Templi Orientis. Transformed by Aleister Crowley into an anti-Christian Horus-worshipping cult, this secret society is basically Freemasonrymeets Wicca. It's this, by the way, and not Freemasonry and Wicca, that paranoid fundies should actually be concerned about.
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8The Ahnenerbe, a Nazi pseudo-archaeological group
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4beliefnet (lower case), a blogging site composed of erudite fuzzy-mindedness, much-referenced in RW articles.
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2Aurangzeb: Thanks a lot for taking the most then-advanced civilization on earth and setting back Middle Eastern and Indian civilization for several centuries, you fundamentalist jerk.
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2PowerLung, Elevation Training Mask and similar knockoff products. Could all be in one article. Woo products claiming to exercise your lungs and diaphragm and simulate higher altitudes. Actually they are just expensive ways to breathe through a straw.
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