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Rosemary Altea - British author and self-proclaimed psychic.
Dylan Avery - filmmaker, 9/11 truther and creator of the Loose Change series of films.
Michael Behe - American biochemist, author, and intelligent design (ID) advocate.
Tom Bethell - British journalist and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, which endorses HIV/AIDS denialism.
Harvey Bialy - American molecular biologist and AIDS denialist.
Sylvia Browne - American author and self-described psychic and spiritual medium.
Rhonda Byrne - Australian author of The Secret, which promotes ideas related to the New Thought law of attraction.
Kirk Cameron - American actor, evangelical Christian and creationist.
Jim Carrey - Canadian-American actor and advocate for the MMR vaccine-autism link and of the law of attraction.
Hiram Caton - American Professor of politics and history, and AIDS denialist.
Kristin Cavallari - American actress who refuses to vaccinate her children, owing to fears of a vaccine-autism link.
Exene Cervenka - American singer and conspiracy theorist who stated that the 2014 Isla Vista killings were a U.S. government conspiracy.
Deepak Chopra - Indian-American author and alternative medicine/New Age guru, promoter of "quantum healing", and opponent of "militant skepticism".
Ray Comfort - New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist and creationist.
Philip Cooney - climate change denialist, former fossil fuel lobbyist, climate team leader at the American Petroleum Institute and President George W. Bush's chief of staff of the Council on Environmental Quality.
Anne Coulter - American lawyer, conservative political commentator, and writer, who calls evolution "bogus science" in her 2006 book Godless: The Church of Liberalism, and who advocates radiation as cancer vaccine.
Étienne de Harven - Belgian-born pathologist, electron microscopist and AIDS denialist.
William A. Dembski - American mathematician, philosopher, theologian and proponent of intelligent design.
Allison DuBois - American author, purported medium, whose supposed abilities form the basis for the TV show Medium.
Peter Duesberg - German-American professor of molecular and cell biology and AIDS denialist.
John Edward - American television personality and professional psychic medium, known for his TV show Crossing Over with John Edward.
Celia Farber - American journalist, author, and AIDS denialist.
Martin Fleischmann - British electrochemist, known for his work with Stanley Pons on cold fusion in the 1980s and '90s.
Stanton Friedman - American nuclear physicist and Ufologist.
Richard Gage - architect, 9/11 truther and founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
Uri Geller - magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic, known for his trademark performances of spoon bending and other supposed psychic effects.
Hutton Gibson - Father of actor/ director Mel Gibson, conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier and 9/11 truther.
Duane Gish - American biochemist, Young Earth Creationist, former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and the author of numerous publications about creation science.
David Ray Griffin - retired American professor of philosophy of religion and theology, and author of 9/11 truther books.
Pierre Guillaume - French political activist and distributor of Holocaust denial literature.
Phillip E. Johnson - UC Berkeley law professor, author, and AIDS denialist
Ken Ham - Australian young Earth creationist, known as the president of Answers in Genesis, a Christian apologetics ministry which operates the Creation Museum.
Daniel Hamburg - former U.S. Congressman and 9/11 truther.
Jim Hoffman - 9/11 truther and creator of the website 9-11 Research.
David Hoggan - American professor of history, and Holocaust denier.
Kent Hovind - American young Earth creationist and conspiracy theorist.
David Irving - English writer and Holocaust denier, who specializes in the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany.
Alex Jones - radio host and conspiracy theorist.
Steven E. Jones - American physicist, 9/11 truther and cofounder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
Peter Joseph - filmmaker and creator of the film Zeitgeist: The Movie.
J. Z. Knight - American mystic teacher and author, and is known for claiming to be channel of a spiritual entity named Ramtha.
Serge Lang - French-American mathematician and AIDS denalist.
John Lauritsen - retired market research analyst, author and AIDS denialist.
Shirley MacLaine - American actress, and a promoter in ideas such as reincarnation, New Age spirituality, and Ufology. She has stated to have had alien encounters and witnessed, and that in a previous life in Atlantis, she was the brother to a 35,000 year old spirit named Ramtha channeled by J. Z. Knight.
Christine Maggiore - American AIDS denialist who died of AIDS.
Lynn Margulis - American biologist and AIDS denialist.
Thabo Mbeki - former President of South Africa and AIDS denialist.
Jenny McCarthy - promoter of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and of chelation therapy as a remedy.
Kary Mullis - Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist, author, and promoter of AIDS denialism, climate change denial and astrology.
Andrew Neel - filmmaker and creator of the documentary on the 9/11 Truth movement, New World Order.
Gary Null - American talk radio host, author, documentary film and television producer, and advocate for alternative medicine and naturopathy.
Rosie O'Donnell - 9/11 truther who publicly disputed the official explanation for the destruction of the World Trade Center.
Adnan Oktar - Turkish author who, under the professional name Harun Yahya, published the Islamic creationist book Atlas of Creation.
Mehmet Oz - Physician who supports ideas such as faith healing, mediumship, Transcendental Meditation and use of garcinia extract as an antiobesity remedy.
Peter Phillips - 9/11 truther and president of Project Censored.
Stanley Pons - American-French electrochemist known for his work with Martin Fleischmann on cold fusion in the 1980s and '90s.
Peter Popoff - German American televangelist, and self-proclaimed prophet and faith healer.
David Rasnick - chemist, biologist and AIDS denialist.
Matthias Rath - German doctor, and vitamin salesman who promotes use of dietary supplements to treat or cure diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS.
Hugh Ross - Canadian American astrophysicist, Christian apologist, and old earth creationist.
Charlie Sheen - 9/11 conspiracy truther and narrator of the film Loose Change.
Andrew Schlafly - creationist and creator of Conservapedia, a wiki that promotes pseudoscientific views on topics such as evolution and abortion.
Frederick Seitz - American physicist, pioneer of solid state physics and climate change denialist.
Rupert Sheldrake - English author, lecturer, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, known for advocating his "morphic resonance" concept.
Ben Stein - conservative speech writer, actor and game show host, opponent of scientific materialism and co-writer and star of the anti-evolution 2008 film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
Whitley Strieber - American horror author who claimed to have been abducted by non-human beings.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos - Swiss-born Greek writer, television personality, and proponent of the idea that ancient astronauts interacted with ancient humans.
James Van Praagh - American author and self-described clairvoyant and spiritual medium.
Immanuel Velikovsky - Russian-Jewish psychiatrist and promoter of pseudohistorical ideas, most notably in the book Worlds in Collision.
Jesse Ventura - former professional wrestler, politician and 9/11 truther who has advocated controlled demolition theories for the destruction of the World Trade Center.
Andreas von Bülow - 9/11 conspiracy theorist and author of The CIA and September 11.
Erich Von Daniken - Swiss author of books promoting claims of extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, most notably the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?
Andrew Wakefield - British former surgeon and medical researcher, known for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of the now-discredited claim linking the MMR vaccine autism and bowel disease.
Travis Walton - American logger who claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1975.
Montel Williams - talk show host promoter of Sylvia Browne, who had the medium as a regular guest on his talk show.
Robert Willner - American doctor and AIDS denialist.
Oprah Winfrey - TV talk show host, media mogul and promoter of Mehmet Oz.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - developer of the Transcendental Meditation technique, and spiritual advisor to the Beatles.
Mark Steele - British promoter of conspiracy theories related to 5G and vaccines.
Kate Shemirani - British former nurse and promoter of conspiracy theories related to 5G and vaccines.
Vernon Coleman - British former general practitioner, AIDS denialist and promoter of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

Former promoters of pseudoscientific ideas

Robert Root-Bernstein - Michigan State University professor of physiology and former AIDS denialist.

Victims of pseudoscientific ideas

Eliza Jane Scovill - daughter of HIV-positive AIDS denialist Christine Maggiore, who died of AIDS at age 3, following a pregnancy in which her mother refused to take antiretroviral drugs or other measures which reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

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