[{"n": "Alessandro Cagliostro", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/alessandro-cagliostro/", "s": "Italian occultist and self-styled magician, called the 'Quack of Quacks' by Thomas Carlyle."}, {"n": "Anatoly Fomenko", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/anatoly-fomenko/", "s": "Soviet and Russian mathematician, topologist, and pseudohistorical conspiracy theorist"}, {"n": "Andrew Wakefield", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/andrew-wakefield/", "s": "Discredited former surgeon behind the fraudulent MMR–autism link."}, {"n": "Arnold Ehret", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/arnold-ehret/", "s": "The mucusless diet prophet who denied germ theory."}, {"n": "Arthur de Gobineau", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/arthur-de-gobineau/", "s": "Architect of the Aryan master race theory"}, {"n": "Bernard Heuvelmans", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/bernard-heuvelmans/", "s": "Belgian-French zoologist who coined the term 'cryptozoology'."}, {"n": "Dane Rudhyar", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/dane-rudhyar/", "s": "Pioneer of humanistic and transpersonal astrology."}, {"n": "David Icke", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/david-icke/", "s": "English conspiracy theorist and former BBC sports presenter."}, {"n": "David Irving", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/david-irving/", "s": "English author and Holocaust denier discredited in 2000 libel trial."}, {"n": "Edgar Cayce", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/edgar-cayce/", "s": "American clairvoyant who diagnosed illnesses while asleep."}, {"n": "Erich von Däniken", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/erich-von-d-niken/", "s": "Swiss author who popularized ancient astronaut theory."}, {"n": "Franz Joseph Gall", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/franz-joseph-gall/", "s": "German neuroanatomist who founded the pseudoscience of phrenology."}, {"n": "Geoffrey of Monmouth", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/geoffrey-of-monmouth/", "s": "Cleric and chronicler who shaped the Arthurian legend."}, {"n": "Ian Stevenson", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/ian-stevenson/", "s": "Psychiatrist who studied children's past-life memories for forty years."}, {"n": "Immanuel Velikovsky", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/immanuel-velikovsky/", "s": "Psychoanalyst and catastrophist whose pseudohistorical works sparked academic controversy."}, {"n": "Ivan T. Sanderson", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/ivan-t-sanderson/", "s": "Biologist, writer, and co-founder of cryptozoology."}, {"n": "Jeane Dixon", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/jeane-dixon/", "s": "American psychic and astrologer known for Kennedy assassination prediction."}, {"n": "Michio Kushi", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/michio-kushi/", "s": "Japanese educator who brought macrobiotics to the United States."}, {"n": "Nostradamus", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/nostradamus/", "s": "French astrologer and reputed seer of the 16th century."}, {"n": "Richard Bandler", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/richard-bandler/", "s": "Co-founder of neuro-linguistic programming and self-help author."}, {"n": "Robert Atkins (physician)", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/robert-atkins-physician/", "s": "American physician who created the low-carb Atkins Diet."}, {"n": "Samuel Hahnemann", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/samuel-hahnemann/", "s": "German doctor who founded the alternative medicine system homeopathy."}, {"n": "Stanton T. Friedman", "u": "/e/fringe-figures-and-pseudoscience/stanton-t-friedman/", "s": "Nuclear physicist who became a leading ufologist."}]