Encyclopedia of American Loons

When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.

 The Encyclopedia of American Loons (EAL) is a blog written by Fredrik Haraldsen, Ryan Lake,  and someone with the initials "G.D." that gives short biographies for living (at the time of blogging) American pseudoscientists, conspiracy theory promoters (such as 9/11 truthers and birthers), climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, vehement anti-abortionists, and religious fundamentalists. Loons who have migrated from other countries to the US, particularly from Canada, are also included. Between 2010 and 2019, more than 2200 biographies have been written. The length and quality of each biography varies, and some biographies do reference RationalWiki. Other frequent references include links to Patheos, Respectful Insolence, and Right Wing Watch. All biographies end with a "diagnosis", the author's evaluation of the crank, a metric of how ultimately dangerous the crank is. EAL includes both well-known loons and more obscure ones, and does not use notability as a criterion though the better-known seem to be favored. Older biographies are prone to using dead links, but one can probably trace back most of them using archive.org or archive.is. Blogging of loons appear alphabetically, then cycle all over with a new alphabetical batch. Belittling so many lunatics will garner some fan mail occasionally:

"So what the fuck is your problem?

Why are YOU so goddamn smug?

Who are you to ridicule a Zionist conspiracy? The Zionist conspiracy was involved in the very formation of the nation of Israel?!! Fucking dumbass.

You're probably the type who believes the official media story of 9-11, without a critical mind to investigate alternatives. And how sick of you to ridicule truthseekers and call them 'troofers'. That's just horrible. Would you rather people NOT try to find truth?!

I bet you believe in the Warren Commission's report as well, and the official propaganda about the Vietnam War… and you undoubtedly believe in the Big Bang, and pure evolution by chance and randomness with no intelligence involved whatsoever. The Big Bang is just as goofy a theory as the 'poof-there-it-is!' belief of creationists.

The comic strip on your webpage is the worst I've ever seen! Even worse than The Simpsons animation, even worse than King Of The Hill. Whether you or one of your WOW-playing buddies did it, it's abject garbage.

I bet you're some 20-something punk who think he's a know-it-all. I bet you listen to shitty music and play video games all the time, when you're not making fun of other humans.

If you believe in the official, mainstream trash about 9-11, you're the one who belongs in your American Loons encyclopedia. Why haven't you included yourself yet?

Fuck you, you ignorant non-thinking half-brain."

External link

 * Encyclopedia of American Loons