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11-24-2008, 10:00 AM
|  | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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| | | Counterknowledge awards 2008
Vote now in the 2008 Counterknowledge Awards - Counterknowledge.com Quote:
Vote now in the 2008 Counterknowledge Awards
Here’s your chance to give a quack, charlatan, “creative” historian or bogus scientist the place in history they deserve, as winner of The 2008 Counterknowledge Awards. Use the form below to vote for the person you deem the most egregious cheerleader for counterknowledge from the past year.
Graham Hancock
Best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods and possibly the quintessential counterknowledge merchant, this year Graham has indulged in speculation about the 2012 Mayan doomsday prophecy and life on Mars. He also hosts an extensive website that gives publicity to “alternative” historians and archaeologists, some of whose theories are even more risible than his own.
Echan Deravy
Echan Deravy is director of the Earth Pilgrims project and another believer in some kind of Mayan-style 2012 apocalypse. Echan threw his toys out the pram when we wrote about him earlier this year, but that didn’t deter us: here’s another snippet of comic self-regard.
Visiting Professor Patrick Holford
Patrick Holford, whose tenure as visiting professor at Teesside University didn’t last long, is still regarded by the media as a leading “nutritionist” despite having zero academic qualifications in the field and making some highly questionable remarks about AZT and Vitamin C. Check out the excellent Holfordwatch for more information about his dodgy CV and useless “nutritional” advice.
Gavin Menzies
Menzies, a retired naval commander, is the author of 1421, a bestselling “history” book which claims that Chinese fleets discovered New Zealand, Greenland and Brazil. His latest book, 1434, has the same fleets sailing into Venice to meet the Pope. This is bogus history of the worst variety - i.e., the type that, thanks to the efforts of major publishing houses, reaches a huge audience.
Dr Gillian McKeith
Widely derided as “that awful poo lady” and stripped of her bogus qualification by the ASA, Gillian McKeith continues to be a menace to the public’s understanding of biology and nutrition through her ignorance. This year we laughed at her woes and we threw our hands up in despair at her obnoxious stupidity.
Adnan Oktar, a.k.a. Harun Yahya
The controversial, Turkish-born Roger Delgado look-alike Adnan Oktar is the world’s leading Muslim creationist. His rejection of evolution has attracted even more media attention than his criminal convictions. An “enigmatic” character, Oktar has established himself as head of the slick B.A.V., which has distributed the lavish (but hilariously error-laden) Atlas of Creation to schools, libraries, newspapers and other public bodies. He has also embarked upon a high-profile, take-no-prisoners campaign of censorship against all who dare oppose him.
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
We’re (almost) sure Prince Charles means well. But please, Your Royal Highness: stop embarrassing yourself. Prince Charles’s vocal support for homeopathy and credulous acceptance of GM conspiracy theories is an abuse of his constitutional position.
Dr Andrew Wakefield
Andrew Wakefield is the doctor at the centre of the MMR scandal. Although the GMC is yet to reach a verdict, we already know that Wakefield’s fanatical quackery has caused needless anxiety for millions of parents - and put lives at risk.
Thabo Mbeki
As president of South Africa, Mbeki oversaw an institutionalisation of counterknowledge that may already have cost the lives of millions. Along with Matthias Rath, Mbeki is one of the highest-profile AIDS denialists in the world. UN special envoy Stephen Lewis attacked called his administration “obtuse and negligent” at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto - surely a massive understatement.
Tim Darvill & Geoff Wainwright
Way back in April, we said there was something fishy about Darvill and Wainwright’s theory – unveiled in a BBC documentary – that Stonehenge was intended as a stone-age Lourdes. Sure enough, in October of this year, the experts agreed. Programme commissioners, take note: this is what happens when you set out to turn archaeology into tabloid headlines.
The Church of Scientology
The Church of Scientology has been accused of pseudoscience and recommending dangerous treatments for mental and physical ailments, Their nomination this year rests primarily on their (we hope) doomed attempts to have John Duignan’s The Complex banned. We’ve reported on the fight against their oppressive censorship and will continue to do so.
The Kabbalah Center
The faux-Jewish spirituality cult of Kabbalah has been called ”the Grand High Church of mumbo-jumbo”. The Center sells bottled water, “blessed” by the Center and “infused with Light”. “Quantum Resonance Technology” is used to “restructure the intermolecular binding” of spring water. Philip Berg, head of the Kabbalah empire, has publicly stated that this water can cure both AIDS and SARS, and once even complained, “If the damn FDA [Food and Drug Administration] would just let me put on the label that the water cures cancer, like it does, I wouldn’t need marketing.”
Dylan Avery
Dylan Avery is the writer and director of Loose Change, the sneakily dishonest “documentary” blaming a U.S. government conspiracy for 9/11. More interesting (and entertaining) than Loose Change ever was is this parody. But the original is still turning kids’ brains to jell-o.
Voting closes one month from now, on 22 December 2008 - just in time for Christmas. The winner will be presented with a certificate. And a perhaps bottle of snake oil. Happy voting!
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11-24-2008, 10:28 AM
|  | ya basta | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: shallow grave
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| | | what is horrible about that is that I am aware of every single one of those people/organisations...which suggests they're reaching a wide audience.
i just realised a lot of them have come up in The Guardian's "Bad Science" column
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11-24-2008, 10:34 AM
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| | | See, I did think this: a lot of these people are only going to be listened to by gullible people who'll believe just about anything they're told. I mean, yeah, that's lame, but are we really supposed to believe that people like that are any great loss to the scientific community? Like, would they be any better off if they weren't misinformed?
Of the people on the list, you seem to have some douchey conmen, some misguided buffoons, and then, just out of the blue, someone like Thabo Mbeki. I can deal with smart people conning dumb people, even on a scale as grand as the Church of Scientology, but when these assholes are actually informing government policy, that's something else altogether, surely.
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11-24-2008, 10:41 AM
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| | | mbeki is a disgrace though. I thought the major reason he was denying the AIDs epidemic was because it would portray africa as backwards and underdeveloped...so instead let thousands die. you're right, he is of a different ilk to the others.
basically the list reads like a prospective for future louis theroux docs
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11-24-2008, 01:07 PM
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| | | re: Bad Science column. I saw Ben Goldacre speak at Robin Ince's School For Gifted Children, just after the lawsuit against him by Rath had been dropped. I'd vote Mbeki/Rath purely for the stupidity of their claims and the lives they cost - though I'm sure most of it was Rath pouring poison into Mbeki's ear.
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11-24-2008, 01:30 PM
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| | | Rath poison?
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11-24-2008, 04:07 PM
| | ya basta | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: shallow grave
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ophiel  Rath poison? | 
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