List of pages, organisations and people who spread disinformation, scientific illiteracy and rhetorical nonsense of any kind – The list of Anti-Horsemen!

Be advised: This list is not complete!!

PAGES/BLOGS:

• Unexplained on Gaia – This site is full of conspiracy hypothesis. To untrained mind, lot of stuff there make sense.

• Big Think – The Big Think changed slowly into “small think”. From time to time, one can find an interesting article or video, however nowadays they are very rare and good stuff come (reposted) from earlier days.

• Intelligence is sexy – a page full of rhetorical nonsense and self-helping advices. With intelligence has nothing to do.

• Thinking Minds – same as above!

• https://www.wahrheitsnetz.com/ – Webpage about esoteric and conspiracy hypotheses; Esoterik, Humbug und Verschwörungshypothetiker Webseite
  
• www.AEGIS.at – Anti-Vaxx nonsense; Impfgegner Humbug
  
• Psiram.de or Esowatch.de – Webpage about esoteric nonsense. Do not confuse it with Psiram.com or Esowatch.com. These Websites are offering the opposite of Psiram.de or Esowatch.de!!!
  
• Der Blog für Science & Politik – An Austrian blog-webpage community with a contradictory name (Blog for Science and Politics), considering the pseudoscientific claims they offer as main content. It is a place for those who formally possess higher education yet are highly scientifically illiterate. This community tries to bring up the academic titles of their contributors as credibility benchmark, which is a school example of an argumentum ad verecundiam.
  
• Discovery Institute – An organisation dedicated to support and spread religious dogma and nonsense by misusing science. A lot of alleged “scientists” work there who are part of this movement.

WANNABE (SCIENCE) JOURNALISTS/PHILOSOPHERS:

• John Horgan – https://www.johnhorgan.org/
  A few very good articles about Horgan’s way of writing:
  – The Fictional Aether: A rant: “puckish”, “provocative” science journalist fails to understand basic facts about scientific expertise
  – John Horgan makes a strawman argument against “consilience” – Why Evolution Is True
• Richard D. Precht – a German “science” philosopher. He honestly believes that he is giving or being able to give a good assessments about various scientific topics. Therefore I would not consider him so much anti-science as those who do the same thing but from very ill intents. Sometimes he scores a few interesting points, however one must be careful not to fall for his (I must admit it!) very nice rhetoric. Still, a good rhetoric is not an argument.
  An article about Precht’s way of writing:
  – Ein populistischer Schreiber und Kritiker – Wie uns der intellektuelle Scheinanführer Richard D. Precht wieder einmal mit unsinnigen Argumenten irreführt, dieses Mal zu Corona | Lars Jaeger
• Yuval Noah Harari – not exactly to be considered as typical anti-horseman, but more like someone who misunderstood some philosophical topics and concepts, yet truly believes that these are part of objective scientific truth. For instance, his claim about humanism is on such case: Debunking Yuval Noah Harari claims about humanism

WOO SCIENTISTS, THINKERS, PUBLIC FIGURES and CONSPIRACIST:

• MAIN ANTI_HORSEMEN OF EUROPE:
  
  – Wolfgang Wodarg
  – Sucharit Bhakdi
  – Klaus Kohnlein
  – Lidija Gajski
  – Ivo Đurišić
  – Jose Manuel Fernandes Garcia
  – Geert Vanden Bossche
  About them here: Famous Doctors and Their Dangerous Disinformation (digicomnet.org); Wissenschaftler als Gegner von Corona-Massnahmen – Der Grat zwischen gesunder wissenschaftlicher Skepsis und Unterstützung der absurden Querdenker-Bewegung | Lars Jaeger;
  
  – Dr. Christian Fiala – is an Austrian doctor, gynaecologist, author and well-known critic of scientific views concerning AIDS. During SARS 2 pandemic in 2020’s he also offered a colourful list of unsubstantiated claims concerning vaccines, anti-SARS public measures, etc.

• OTHER ANTI-HORSEMEN (Europe and Worldwide):
  
  – Deepak K. Chopra – the godfather of New Age nonsense and Woo; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra
  – Vandana Shiva -the godmother of Indian pseudoscience movement; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva
  – David Icke – conspiracist, the father of modern conspiracy hypotheses; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/David_Icke
  – Andrew Wakefield – former physician and medical researcher, a fraud. One of the originators of the modern anti-vaccine movement; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
  – Rupert Sheldrake – former scientist who, since the 1980s, has preferred to promote his own pet theory of everything called “morphic resonance”; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
  – Mahatma Gandhi – had some very crazy and nonsensical (world)views; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
  – Johann Loibner – Austrian anti-vaxxer physician / österreichischer Impfgegner/Arzt
  – Franziska Loibner – Spouse of Johann Loibner / Ehefrau vom J. Loibner;
  runs the AEGIS Movement (already mentioned), has connections to Austrian Christian Party / führt die AEGIS Bewegung, hat Verbindungen zu CPÖ
  – Peer Eifler – anti-vaxxer physician, supported by: Austrian right-wing party, PSIRAM.de, Corona-Aufklärung TV/ Unterstützt von FPÖ; PSIRAM.de; Corona-Aufklärung tv.
  – Winfred Stöcker – German physician who allegedly developed vaccine against Covid-19 (illegally); He is very close to right-wing scene / Deutscher Arzt der eigene Corona-Impfung illegal entwickelt hat; steht sehr nah zu rechtsextremistischen Organisationen in Deutschland.
  Science Cops Folge 9: Der Wunder-Impfstoff von Winfried Stöcker – quarks.de
  – Eckhart Tolle – New Age nonsense guru; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle
  – Bruce Lipton – is an American anti-vaxxer and developmental biologist, who is best known for promoting the idea that genes and DNA can be affected by a person’s beliefs; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bruce_Lipton
  – Jordan Peterson – stupid man’s smart person;
  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
  – Gwyneth Paltrow – promoter of an expansive range of nutty pseudosciences; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gwyneth_Paltrow
  – Oprah Winfrey – Woo and Anti-intellectualism promoter; https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey
  – Novak Djokovic – well known tennis player who supports Woo
  – Miroljub Petrovic – Serbian godfather of Serbian contemporary pseudoscience
  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Miroljub_Petrovi%C4%87
  – Candace Owens – U.S. right-wing nonsense pundit and demagogue
  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Candace_Owens
  – Jaggi Vasudev called Sadhguru and his Isha Institute of Inner Sciences – (like Chopra) the nonsense and pseudoscience preacher that misuses pretty much every scientific breakthrough or terminology for purposes of explaining mysticisms of various kinds.