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David Miliband

thumb|left|Miliband Senior in happier days, when Labour were actually in power.
David Miliband , a British former Labour Party politician, served as the Member of Parliament for South Shields from 2001 to 2013. He held several ministerial positions between 2007 and 2010, including that of Foreign Secretary (Miliband was the youngest person to ever hold the office, to which he was appointed at the age of 41).Foreign Secretary After Labour's loss in the May 2010 General Election, Miliband continued as shadow Foreign Secretary from May until September, at which point he effectively retired from senior-spokesperson positions for the reasons outlined below.
==Leadership==
In mid-2010, David Miliband was the least unlikely candidate for the position of leader of the Labour Opposition in the UK; the only other serious contender was his brother Ed. In a bizarre shock result, he lost out to Ed, who ascended to the Labour opposition leadership. To avoid constant comparisons between him and his brother, and to avoid any media-generated manufactroversies over sibling rivalry, David stepped down from senior government positions and effectively disappeared from the media for some time. Several years later, this decision still has some people scratching their heads and wondering "why Ed? No, really, why Ed?" In the era of Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson, and Donald Trump, David's bland, Blairite managerialist centrism looks increasingly far from what passes for politics today, but many people are nostalgic for an age when politicians didn't seem intent on breaking as many things as possible.
==After that==
Following his failure to replace Gordon Brown as Labour leader in 2010, he was a backbench MP until 2013 when he quit parliament and became head of a New York-based NGO, the which provides aid to refugees and those affected by war and natural disasters.International Rescue Committee, International Rescue Committee website He has largely kept clear of British politics, although he did resurface in 2019 to call for a second referendum as a solution to the Brexit mess.As foreign secretary I argued against an EU referendum. Now I back one, David Miliband, The Guardian, Mar 5, 2019
==Factoids==
He is reputedly devastatingly intelligent. Since Labour is electable,UK Polling Report.co.uk he could have become the first openly atheist leader of the UK — an act that would undoubtedly have sent the American Religious Right into a tizzy over the "special relationship". But his brother Ed's also an atheist. As is Nick Clegg, who became deputy Prime Minister in the 2010 election. Mwa ha ha!
==References==
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David Norris

David Norris (also known as "Fag Norris" or "Sodomite David Norris"Ah the good ol' Westboro Baptist Church) is a former professor and lecturer at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and was an Irish senator from 1987 until his retirement in 2024Making him the longest serving senator in Irish history.. A self-proclaimed Joycean, David led the good fight to decriminalise homosexuality in 1993, aided and abetted along the way by then-President Mary Robinson. 
David is renowned throughout the Irish electorate as a witty guy and, regardless of local opinions on homosexuality, the overwhelming majority of Irish people regard him in a positive light. Norris is considered one of a near extinct race of Dublin "characters," following in the footsteps of people such as Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, "Bang Bang," The Diceman, and the Monaghan-born Patrick Kavanagh.
He also ran for the Irish Presidency, much to the dismay of a small and sad band of wingnuts. Even though the Irish Presidency is a powerless institution (effectively a glorified diplomat), certain people worried of the possible damaging effects of having an unrepentant homosexual as head of state. He did not win the election. As of 2020, the current Tániste [deputy Prime minister] and the former Taoiseach [prime minister] ( the person with actual power) is gay. 
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David P. Amrein

David P. Amrein is a disciple of not-a-medical-Dr Hulda Clark. 
Mr. Amrein is the founder of "Dr. Clark Research Association", aka "Dr. Clark Zentrum", based in Switzerland, which is carrying on the unproven Hulda Clark electronic-zapper "protocols" in Europe.
Like his mentor Ms. Clark, Mr. Amrein is a recipient of a summary judgment from the FTC preventing him from repeating unsubstantiated claims that the zapper devices he sells can cure cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, and other serious/terminal illnesses.Swiss Company Charged by FTC with Making Unsubstantiated Health Claims
The student may have surpassed the master: Mr. Amrein received a second summary judgment from the FTC in 2012 concerning pharmaceutical anti-impotence treatment; unlike the consumers' penises, the charges against him stood up in court.Dr. Clark Research Association, Dr. Clark Behandlungzentrum GMbH, d/b/a Dr. Clark Zentrum, and David P. Amrein
==External links==
*"Dr. Clark Zentrum", (aka David P. Amrein), European web-page showing unproven electronic-zapper devices for sale.
*David was a Scientologist. Having access to the Scientology membership-roll would come in handy, as it doubles a "sucker list."
==References==
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David Raup

David Malcolm Raup was an American paleontologist. Raup contributed to the knowledge of extinction events and suggested that the extinction of dinosaurs 66 mya was part of a cycle of mass extinctions that may have occurred every 26 million years. He was a contributor to the book Scientists Confront Creationism.
==Biography==
He worked at the University of Chicago where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree. From there, he went to Harvard for graduate studies where he majored in geology while focussing on paleontology and biology; he earned his MA and PhD degrees.
==Creationist quote mining==
Religious creationists are known for quote mining the work of Raup. Creationists usually quote mine Raup's paper titled Conflicts between Darwin and Paleontology (1979).David Raup Conflicts between Darwin and Paleontology Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin Jan. 1979, Vol. 50 No. 1 p. 22-29 The quote the creationists take out of context is:
What Raup really said in context was:
 
The paper is a discussion about Darwin's mechanism of natural selection and whether this mechanism is reflected in pattern of the fossil record, not whether there is a lack of evidence for common descent. From the beginning of the article:
Raup later expanded on the ideas in his paper and published a book Extinction. Bad Genes or Bad Luck? (1991) which does not deny that some species go extinct by natural selection but has written that the majority of extinctions especially mass extinctions are caused by physical factors such as comets, climatic changes and catastrophes. Raup is not challenging natural selection as a cause of modification of species he just claimed that gradual change by natural selection is not the only mechanism of evolution as non-gradual extinction events also have a role. Creationists however usually misrepresent Raup to make out he is denying common descent or natural selection.
==Selected publications==
*Raup, David; Stanley, Steven M. (1978). Principles of Paleontology (2 ed.). ISBN 0-7167-0022-0.
*Raup, David (1986). Patterns and Processes in the History of Life. In David M. Raup and David Jablonski. Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Patterns and Processes in the History of Life, 16–21 June 1985. Berlin: Springer Verlag. ISBN 0-387-15965-7.
*Raup, David (1991). Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?. ISBN 0-393-30927-4.
*Raup, David (1999). The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science. ISBN 0-393-31918-0.
==References==
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David Ray Griffin

David Ray Griffin is a former philosophy and theology professor (specifically, emeritus at Claremont School of Theology in California) and current moonbat conspiracy theorist. He wrote a load of theology texts in his pre-truther days, mostly dealing with theology and postmodernism. He claims to have evidence of a government conspiracy regarding the 9/11 tragedy and Osama bin Laden's death, and he has written several books on the subject.
His first and most famous work of trutherism is The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11. Naturally, it's a book-length just asking questions session (indeed, he never explains how the conspiracy would work in toto, but merely attempts to poke holes in the "official account" like most other conspiracy theorists), replete with the standard post hoc cui bono reasoning and citations of other cranks as "experts." All the old truther chestnuts are there as well, including WTC7, the Pentagon being hit by a cruise missile, the PNAC, and a number of the other greatest hits.
He has also written some material shoehorning Christian theology into trutherism (namely, Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action).
==See also==
*Cognitive infiltration
* Journal of 9/11 Studies, an occasional stomping ground of his
*Yukihisa Fujita, co-author of Seeking 9/11 Truth at the Japanese Parliament
==External links==
*Griffin's homepage Long gone; was apparently run by some other guy
*An online edition of The New Pearl Harbor
*Getting Agnostic About 9/11, an interview with Griffin in the LA Times
*Chip Berlet's review of The New Pearl Harbor, Griffin responds, Berlet debates Griffin
*David Ray Griffin vs. Matt Taibbi
*On Debunking 9/11 Debunking, Journal of Debunking 9/11 Conpsiracy Theories
*The Truth Behind 9/11, Weekly Standard
*David Ray Griffin: How a Retired Theologian Became a High Priest of the 9/11 Truth Movement, AlterNet
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David Roberts

David Roberts is a new age, wide-spectrum crackpot and woo peddler residing in Columbus, Ohio. Roberts primarily spreads his message through his webshite, The Game of Time. He claims to be a Pleiadian starseed sent to spread his space wisdom with us.
==The Game of Time==
David Roberts' website is a pretty damn amusing tour through his particular version of well worn new age tropes. While not approaching a Timecube magnitude of crazy it's a fascinatingly esoteric and fun read for a connoisseur of new age woo. If you have a reasonable understanding of science it's also hilariously incorrect on many occasions. 
Diagrams trying to make sense of the nonsense abound. Many of these rely heavily on what appears to be 1990's era clip art akin to the sort you'd see for hair salon adverts. Rainbows shooting out of people and things seems to be a common motif.
The website flits through concepts including the law of attraction, pseudopsychology, subtle energy, quantum woo, existentialism, time travel parallel dimensions, and a thick slice of false dichotomies and false equivalences in meaning.
Roberts is especially fond of those. In his mind anything can be defined as anything else:
*http://www.thegameoftime.com/energy.html
*http://www.thegameoftime.com/healing.html
*http://www.thegameoftime.com/videos1.html 
So incredible are Roberts' transcendental powers that he can change the very meaning of the English language.
==You've Activated my Trap Card!==
While David Roberts is mostly harmless there's always a profitable angle in the new age scene. David has Pleiadian Healing Tarot Cards.http://www.thegameoftime.com/products.html They're better than normal tarot card because they let up to seven people share their energy, which collects exponentially so that they have the energy of 823,543 people.http://www.thegameoftime.com/energy.html These cards don't divine the future but instead are meant to heal the soul and open your mind up to different dimensions of existence in the multiverse. 
Also, one of the cards is "dinosaur". Checkmate, Waite-Rider tarot. 
Would you believe that the cards are produced with clip art that displays little stylistic consistency? Perhaps they're less aesthetically garish to one's third eye.
==Are There Videos?==
Hell yes, they are full of clip art diagrams and they are delightful. http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGameofTime
==External links==
*The Game of Time
*David Roberts at the Encyclopedia of American Loons
*Game of Time Facebook page
==References==
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David Shayler and Annie Machon

thumb|left|165px|Machon in 2013
David Shayler and Annie Machon are former British MI5 spies who left the agency in 1996 and became whistleblowers. They have since become leading conspiracy theorists, and together formed a discussion group that promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories in the UK. Shayler held more extreme views than Machon; he eventually became a "No-Planer" and also began advancing 7/7 conspiracy theories. They were boyfriend and girlfriend for a long time, but have since separated, due to Shayler's increasingly erratic behavior, as he now claims to be Jesus and has an alter ego named "Delores Kane".
==References==
==Further reading==
*Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers ISBN ‎978-1857769524
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David Thompson

David Thompson is a British spiritualist medium. He claims to have become aware of his mediumistic abilities around age of six and has been professionally active since the mid-1990s, starting in the UK and then moving to Australia in 2004.Circle of the Silver Cloud About page, accessed February 10, 2025 He is best known as a "materialization" medium.
==Background==
Thompson works as a physical medium. It is alleged that he exudes ectoplasm during his séances, so that spirits can materialize and speak to sitters.Let's get physical … or did we?. Roy Stemman. Thompson hosts séances with the Circle of the Silver Cord, a spiritualist group in Sydney, Australia.
He is gagged and tied to a chair with "plastic cable ties" during his séances which are hosted in total darkness. It is well known that these are easy to escape from.
He claims to have frequently talked with a spirit guide called William Charles Cadwell, born in London in 1830. However skeptics claim there is no evidence that such a man existed.Who or What is David Thompson's 'William"?, "Lis", SpiritualismLink.com, Wed Apr 09, 2014 Another report mentioned a child called Timmy, who played with a trumpet and luminous ball.
==Fraud==
Thompson has been described as an outright fake by skeptics.David Thompson Physical medium. BadPsychics. Whilst not actually being caught with his trousers down committing fraud directly in the act, like fellow medium Gary Mannion, he has been suspected of it. 
Suspiciously, Thompson has rejected infrared filming of his séances.Time for action. Campaign for thermal testing of physical mediums. Psychics News. He is opposed to cameras. There appears to be only one photograph taken of his ectoplasm; it resembles cloth.
Spiritualist Roy Stemman attended a séance with Thompson and noted, "the medium controlled everything. He knew who would be attending because we were required to provide our details in advance and bring with us photo ID to prove we were who we said we were." Stemman suggested that: 
Thompson later replied to Stemann's criticisms accusing him of bias against physical mediumship. He declined to engage further, stating: 
"I have chosen not to answer your questions, why should I? I am only answerable to the spirit world, not you or any other person."David Thompson replies — then refuses to give answers
A friendly account from the editor of Psychic News noted that Thompson requires all guests to be searched with a metal detector, which would make it much harder to catch him out with smuggled lights, night vision equipment, or recording gear., Sue Farrow, Psychic News, accessed 15 March 2018
==See also==
*Warren Caylor
*Kai Muegge
==Notes==
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David Tredinnick

David Tredinnick was the Conservative MP for Bosworth from 1987 to 2019. His support for astrology and homeopathy led to him being referred to by Labour MP John Denham as the "Right Honourable Member for Holland & Barrett" (a reference to a chain of health food and alt-med shops).Astrology-loving MP David Tredinnick 'convinced' practise can reduce strain on NHS, The Independent He was replaced by another Conservative, Dr. Luke Evans, who has an MD and (might) thus be less of an embarrassment.
==Alternative medicine==
Tredinnick has served on the Health Select Committee, then the Science and Technology Select Committee — while on both, he advocated for more use of homeopathy as well as herbal medicine. Rather worryingly, Tredinnick has advocated the use of homeopathy to treat both malaria and HIV/AIDS.UK election: Round one to the Science Party, New Scientist
Tredinnick's claim that blood cannot clot under a full moon led to the science journalist Martin Robbins referring to the appointment of both Tredinnick and Nadine Dorries to the Health Select Committee in 2010 as the appointment of "Dumb and Dumber".Conservatives put Dumb and Dumber on the health select committee, The Guardian
He also believes (1) that traditional Chinese medicine can treat cancer and apparently (2) that HIV/AIDS is a type of cancer:http://www.scotsman.com/news/tory-mp-traditional-chinese-medicine-can-treat-cancer-and-hiv-1-4312683
==Astrology==
His penchant for astrology led to a rather embarrassing expenses claim for astrology software and training. When asked by constituents why exactly he thought this was a valid expense, he responded:Tory Claims for Astrology CD, Lib Dem Voice
Tredinnick has given talks at the Glastonbury music festival alongside newspaper horoscope writer Jonathan Cainer, extolling the virtues of astrology, and says he has produced astrological charts for other Members of Parliament.Astrology-loving MP seeks health answers in the stars, BBC News
==References==
== External links ==
* David Tredinnick's website
* D Tredinnick's Brain, a Twitter parody account
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David Vitter

David Vitter is a former Republican Senator from Louisiana. He ran for governor of Louisiana in 2015 but lost by a wide margin. After a campaign against Bill Clinton's philandering, in 2007 his name was discovered on the client list of the infamous "DC Madam". His wife stood by him as he pulled a Jimmy Swaggart. After losing a governor's race in 2015 to Democrat John Bel Edwards, he announced he would not run for re-election in 2016, a pledge he kept. He was succeeded by Republican John Neely Kennedy.
==Stance==
Vitter is a fairly typical conservative republican, pro-school prayer, anti-abortion, anti-CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program), wants to write a Constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage and modifying the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship clause, and anti-net neutrality. He's also against the UN and wants increases in the amount of police on the streets. In addition he apparently wears diapers during sex.Wonkette:Diaperman David Vitter Likes His Diapers After 15 years of ignoring the scandal, he's finally come clean… about his prostitution habit with a campaign ad titled originally "Hard Times" and quickly renamed to "Difficult Times" following substantial mockery.Under pressure, Vitter concedes, 'I failed my family' by Steve Benen (11/10/15 09:20 AM) MSNBC.
==Funny==
There was a movement to have porn star Stormy Daniels run against him in the 2010 primary, but it failed.
In some Louisiana Satire he is a Superhero named Vitterman, a man in tights protecting the world from… men in tights.page 8 of a comic book, The Adventures of Supermuse, also featuring Jindalboy.
==See also==
*Mary Landrieu: His somewhat less conservative counterpart
==External links==
*His official website
==References==
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David Wood

David Wood is an American Christian apologist, an evangelical missionary, and a loud speaker against atheism and Islam. He is the head of the Acts 17 Apologetics Ministry, ran the now-defunct website AnsweringInfidels.com,AnsweringInfidels and member of the and the "Wood: Holy Books of Peace? Religious scholars will debate whether the Bible and Quran promote peace or violence" October 3, 2015 He claims that he used to be an atheist and was a psychopath until he was saved by Jesus himself.
==Websites==
===AnsweringInfidels===
Wood started the now-defunct apologetics website, AnsweringInfidels.com, which was a response to the writers at Infidels.org. In their own words, they are dedicated to "refuting the arguments of the self-proclaimed "infidels" of the Secular Web."
====Beef with Richard Carrier====
In 2005, Wood wrote a long and rambling polemic against historian and atheist Richard Carrier and his book Sense and Goodness Without God, called "Good 'n' Senseless Without God: A Critical Review of Richard Carrier's New Book, Sense & Goodness Without God".Wood, David. "Good 'n' Senseless Without God: A Critical Review of Richard Carrier's new book, Sense & Goodness Without God". AnsweringInfidels.com. Wood's work received massive criticism by Carrier himself in an essay called "On the Deceptions of David Wood", where he slammed Wood for being "a fine example of Christian bigotry" and that his work was "essentially a trash-talking diatribe, filled with open disdain and lack of manners or respect, entirely founded on misrepresenting the facts."Richard Carrier. On the Deceptions of David Wood David Wood replied to Carrier's criticism in a rather arrogant manner.Carrier’s Objections, Wood’s Replies Part I
==="Acts17Apologetics"===
Wood and his wife, Marie, who was an agnostic until she converted to Christianity, also posted articles on their blogger website.http://www.acts17.net/
===On YouTube===
Wood ran a YouTube channel with the same name as his ministry, Acts17Apologetics, which as of October 2021, had over 625,000 subscribers and over 153 million views.https://www.youtube.com/user/Acts17Apologetics/about. In 2022, Wood left YouTube after having multiple videos erroneously deleted by YouTube and accruing multiple erroneous community strikes. Wood repeatedly tweeted @TeamYouTube to complain about these strikes https://twitter.com/Acts17David/status/1506353400132378628 https://twitter.com/Acts17David/status/1535460165495005184https://twitter.com/Acts17David/status/1529795607661096961. Feeling like he wasn't listened to, he eventually decided to leave YouTube and start his own website, apologetics315.com, where he could post his content without the risk of it being banned. 
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