The Hall Of Shame

Doctors

Doctors selling their endorsements to the highest bidder make this list every time. They can also be pushing fake cures or creating fear and uncertainty by flogging an illness or disease.

Lawyers

Scientists

Politicians

Since almost any politician that comes to my attention COULD wind up on this list, I'll try to limit it to politicians who have either done great harm to the country or their district.

Intellectuals and Egg Heads

Block Heads, Mouth Breathers, and the Willfully Ignorant

Teachers, Educators, and people Who Should Know Better

Clergy, Priests, Pastors, Men (and Women) of the Cloth, God Talkers

Businessmen

Financiers & Economists

Entertainers

Experts

Individuals and their Shame

George W. Bush

The 43 President just has to be here. His idiocies are too numerous to list entirely at once, but will provide a nearly endless opportunity to edit this page.

External References

So many people have done this work for us already, it would be a shame to not refer to it!

• Wikipedia

Dick Cheney

The Vice President of George W. Bush.

External References

The man generates new external references like a dog breeds fleas.

• Wikipedia

Dr. Richard Summerbell

Came to my attention via BoingBoing on May 24, 2009 for recommending plastic bags over cloth bags for health reasons.

From the article:
The Canadian Plastic Industry Association commissioned a study concluding that using cloth bags is bad for your health because they're full of bacteria (and certainly not because using cloth bags is bad for the profitablity of Canadian Plastic Industry Association members!). They hired an ex-health regulator (Dr. Richard Summerbell, Director of Research at Toronto-based Sporometrics and former Chief of Medical Mycology for the Ontario Ministry of Health) to say that cloth bags put you at risk of "skin infections such as bacterial boils, allergic reactions, triggering of asthma attacks, and ear infections". Of course, it's bullshit, and the regulator who traded his credibility for a consulting fee should be ashamed of himself.

External References

• BoingBoing

Barbara Robinson, deputy USDA administrator (organics)

Allowed dilution of Federal Organic labeling standard in order to "grow" the industry by poisoning our kids,

External References

• Washington Post, July 2, 2009
  Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned
• (local copy)