Alphabetical list of all the Really Wrong Awards
#053: “Access Consciousness”
Adam Niedzielski :
#302: Polish health minister says restrictions are not very effective at limiting pandemic
Adriano Panzironi:
#194: Adriano Panzironi claims his diets and supplements cure cancer and make you 120 years old
Adults attacking Greta Thunberg:
#168: Grown people are attacking 16-year old Greta Thunberg because they cannot find any proper arguments
Advance Pharma:
#286: UK: Advance Pharma increased price with 6000% on critical drug
AI vs. People:
#054: AI vs people in writing Christmas songs and poems
Alberto Zangrillo:
#225: Alberto Zangrillo, Director of the Terapia intensiva del San Raffaele in Milan, for saying that SARS-CoV-2 no longer exists
Anders Arborelius:
#192: Swedish Cardinal Arborelius admits to having covered up sex abuse
András Pintér:
#017: András
Andrzej Dziega:
#214: POLAND: Andrzej Dziega, Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamien claiming Holy water and communion “cannot spread virus”
Anthroposophs in Germany:
#339: To anthroposophs in Germany for trying to sue critics and taking them to court:
Anti-covid demonstrators:
#234: Anti-covid demonstrators in Berlin
Anyone promoting unnecessary tongue web cut:
#279: Unnecessary surgery in new-borns the new alt-med
Association of Catholic Doctors:
#019: To the ‘Association of Catholic Doctors’, believers in religious nonsense, claiming to treat something that is not a disease, with something that is not medicine.
Ayahuasca International:
#031: Shaman serves drugs in Swedish summer camp “Inner Evolution Retreat”
Dr Batra’s Positive Health Clinic:
#002: Dr Batra’s Positive Health Clinic opens its first homeopathic store in the UK with no evidence for their claims.
Bavarian State Government:
#197: The Bavarian State Government wants to fight multi-resistance with – Homeopathy!
BBC:
#187: To the BBC for stupid Loch Ness article
Brian Clement:
#027: Brian Clement and the Hippocrates Institute for promoting quackery
Brilliant Minds Foundation:
#175: ‘Brilliant minds’: Barack Obama, Greta Thunberg – and Gwyneth f-cking Paltrow(!)
British Chiropractic Association:
#067: Finally, the British Chiropractic Association wins the Really Wrong price for still “happily promoting bogus treatments”.
Dr Cameron Sepah:
#199: Dopamine Fasting: The Silliest Thing We’ve Heard in a Long Time
Camilla, Queen Consort of the UK:
#351: Camilla went to India to cleanse her chakras
Cancer quacks who profit on desperate people:
#089: Crowdfunding trips to Alternative Cancer Clinics in Mexico
the Catholic Church:
#083: The Catholic Church for abusing children
#159: Really Wrong price goes to the Catholic Church for being sloppy in their investigations regarding miracles performed by their saints.
the Catholic Church in Germany:
#311: the Catholic Church in Germany for forcing people to hide their true nature in fear of being fired
Champions League:
#277: Champions League final in Porto, Man City vs. Chelsea
Clare Relton:
#270: Clare Relton, homeopath and researcher at Queen Mary University London, for teaching how to cheat RCTs
Climate Intelligence Foundation:
#191: Climate Intelligence Foundation for the letter signed by “500 scientists”
Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes:
#258: Ireland: “the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes”
Communicology:
#007: Communicology
La Conferencia Episcopal Española:
#305: La Conferencia Episcopal Española (CEE), the Spanish Bishops Conference, takes no action against child abuse scandal
ConservativeTribune.com:
#107: ConservativeTribune.com spreading misinformation about migration
Corona Ausschuss:
#304: Germany: The ‘Corona Committee’ spreads endless misinformation
Corriere Della Sera:
#207: ITALY: Corriere Della Sera Sneakily Promotes Pseudotherapies
Corvelva:
#101: Italian anti-vaccers Corvelva and ‘dead’ baby picture:
the Daily Mail:
#071: The Daily Mail and tape worms against autism
#130: The Daily Mail on Chronic Lyme disease
#148: Really Wrong Award for spreading fake Brexit news.
Danderyd Hospital:
#316: SWEDEN: Public hospital MD advocates raw food and breathing therapy for post-covid patients
Danish Government:
#111: Danish government to prohibit burka and hijab in public
Danish People’s Party:
#275: Danish People’s Party wants to bring back prayers in school to “protect Danish culture”
Danny Healy-Rae:
#037: Irish politician refers to Noah’s flood as “fact”
Davide Vannoni, Italian quack:
#049: Davide Vannoni, Italian stem cell quack
Dr Dawn Harper:
#041: Famous UK TV doctor recommends ear candling
Sir Desmond Swayne:
#260: Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne urged anti-vaxxers to ‘persist’ against COVID restrictions
Docrates Clinic:
#184: Experimental cancer clinic in Finland charges huge amounts
Dominik Duka:
#268: Czech Cardinal turns covid remembrance site into an anti-abortion mass
Durek Verrett:
#212: NORWAY: Norwegian Shaman and Boyfriend to the Princess, Durek Verrett, Publishes a “Cure” for Covid-19
Elke Sleurs:
#013: Elke Sleurs, Belgian State Secretary for Equal Opportunities, for training police in retrieving “suppressed memories” using hypnosis
Ellinor Grimmark and the Alliance Defending Freedom:
#298: Anti-abortion Midwife rightfully denied appeal in European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
Elsa Widding:
#349: Swedish MD Elsa Widding (Sweden Democrats) is an antivaxxer, and a crazy one, too.
Emmanuel Macron:
#218: The presidential curse(?): Macron adds to the hydroxychloroquine hype
Enoch Burke:
#342: Irish transphobic teacher Enoch Burke for keep showing up to work where nobody wants him
Eric Clapton:
#285: Really Wrong 2: Eric Clapton refuses to “discriminate” antivaxxers
#311: Dishonorable mention: Eric Clapton says vaccinated people are under mass hypnosis
EU:
#073: The EU about GMO tomatoes
#195: EU GMO rules are bananas
EU Court of Justice:
#079: EU Court of Justice
EU Parliament:
#097: EU Parliament bans Glyphosate
EUROCAM:
#330: EUROCAM for lobbying for quackery
Everyone who signed Boiron petition:
#176: Over a million Really Wrong awards(!) to everyone that have signed Boiron’s desperate petition to keep public funding in France for useless homeopathy.
Exorcists:
#033: Exorcism across Europe
Facebook:
#263: Facebook! for thinking the EUROPEAN Skeptics Podcast is an Australian news outlet
FDP:
#343: FDP and German airlines for campaigning against masks on planes
Foundation for Radiation Safety:
#229: Swedish elementary school invest in “protection” against wi-fi
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
#035: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for publishing an article in support of homeopathy on their science pages
French authorities:
#293: Osteopathy on the rise in France
Geert Vanden Bossche:
#269: Veterinarian Geert Vanden Bossche for spreading fear of vaccines with science sounding nonsense
General Chiropractic Council (UK):
#265: A lot chiropractors fail to inform patients of the risks
#291: Chiropractic Council finds chiropractor NOT guilty after killing patient
German Airlines:
#343: FDP and German airlines for campaigning against masks on planes
German Health Care system:
#257: Germany: hospitals use anthroposophical nonsense against covid-19 – using tax money!
Germanic New Medicine practitioners:
#334: Germanic New Medicine practitioners for being dangerous and antisemitic ideologists
Greenpeace:
#055: Greenpeace for their position on GMO
Gwyneth Paltrow:
#264: Gwyneth Paltrow
Håkan Ericsson:
#015: Håkan Ericsson, coach for the Swedish national under-21 football team, for using HeartMath products.
Hällebergsskolan i Ljungskile (a religious school in Sweden):
#137: Publicly funded religious free school scandal
Hans Kristian Gaarder:
#271: Hans Kristian Gaarder, self-appointed “independent health researcher” (now deceased)
Harald Matthes:
#325: Professor of Anthroposophical Medicine, Harald Matthes, spreads covid vaccine misinformation on German MDR TV Network
#327: Harald Matthes, AGAIN! This time because his hospital promotes an unscientific, untested, and unproven cocid vaccine schedule.
Harald Walach:
#284: Researcher gets two separate papers retracted in two weeks for misleading mask and vaccine safety claims
Health Food:
#281: Bogus claims regarding so-called “health food”
Heilpraktiker system:
#319: German ‘Heilpraktiker’ system is questionable and dangerous
HusDr.se:
#259: Swedish company issues fake covid-19 certificates
IKEA:
#124: IKEA claims plants are hurt if verbally bullied
Irish Doctors:
#227: NORTHERN IRELAND: Doctors sabotaging legal abortions
Italian Government:
#165: Italian Government to stop issuing vaccination certificates
Jack Finney:
#306: Dealer Jack Finney sold toxic industrial chemical as diet pills
Jacob Rees-Mogg:
#346: Jacob Rees-Mogg, British minister of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for claiming that hydrogen could be a viable alternative to natural gas for heating
Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski:
#174: Polish Minister of Agriculture wants to eat beaver (and not in the fun way)
Jan Lindebjerg, Danish MD:
#093: Registered Quack! Alternative treatments in Denmark
Jasna Góra Monastary:
#318: Jasna Góra Monastary tweets that abortions are worse than the Ukraine war
Jeanette Wilson:
#179: ‘Psychic healer’ Jeanette Wilson is touring the UK
Jehova’s Witnesses:
#164: Jehova’s Witnesses child indoctrination in schools (+ plus US child molestation)
Jens Spahn:
#189: To Jens Spahn for not ending funding of homeopathy in Germany
Jeremy Hunt:
#009: Jeremy Hunt, UK Health Secretary advocates “Dr Google”
Johan Rosenqvist:
#345: SWEDEN: Chief physician claims covid vaccines cause cancer. Her online videos get hundreds of thousands of views. The head of the region does nothing since she does it ‘in her spare time’
Journal of Public Health:
#233: “Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice” publishes study that promotes Homeopathy against covid-19
the Journal of Theoretical Biology:
#244: Scandinavian scientific(?) paper promoting Intelligent Design
Jyrki Kauppinen and Pekka Malmi (Turku University):
#185: FINLAND: Is climate change not man-made?
Karolinska Institute:
#011: Karolinska Institutet – for failing to protect the public from the actions of a quack
#115: Karolinska Institutet for hosting a course on Antroposophy
#157: SWEDEN: The Macchiarini investigation has gone missing
Keele University:
#173: To Keele University for allowing a UK Professor who is linking vaccinations to autism to raise money through their funding portal.
Kerri Parker:
#181: Miss Europe claims she is curing her cancer with cannabis oil
Killarney Council:
#155: IRELAND: Killarney Council wants to ban water flouridation
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill:
#317: Russia’s Patriarch Kirill supports the war on Ukraine
Konstanty Radziwill, Polish Minister of Health:
#063: Polish Minister of Health Konstanty Radziwill for claiming that smog is not a priority health issue in Poland.
Lena Schwelling:
#341: Green leader in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Lena Schwelling, complains about ‘crusade’ against homeopathy
Leo Varadkar:
#105: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for not taking a stance against Scientology.
Local Government Act of 1973 (Scotland):
#166: Unelected church representatives in local Scottish councils
Luc Montagnier:
#103: Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier goes anti-vax
#219: The Nobel Disease strikes again: Luc Montagnier claims SARS-cov-2 is manufactured from HIV
#276: Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier for spreading misinformation about COVID-19
Marek Jedraszewski:
#203: Archbishop of Krakow, Poland, Thinks That Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist
MDR:
#325: Professor of Anthroposophical Medicine, Harald Matthes, spreads covid vaccine misinformation on German MDR TV Network
Mendi:
#223: Kickstarter for Bogus “brain trainer” Mendi
Meta:
#314: There is no relation between what Meta says and what Meta does when it comes to stop misinformation
#320: Oops! Facebook actively promoted harmful content instead of downranking it
Michael Neary, Archbishop:
#065: Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam, Ireland
New York Times:
#256: New York Times article about UK vaccine ‘mix-and match’
NICE:
#235: NICE recommendations on acupuncture
Niels Christian Geelmuyden:
#001: Norwegian “expert” claims that salmon are pigs
Northern Ireland:
#029: Ancient abortion laws in Northern Ireland (challenged)
Norwegian Government:
#003: Norwegian Government initiative to plant trees against climate change
#296: Norway to keep expanding their oil and gas industry despite Paris agreement
Novak Djokovic:
#309: Novak Djokovic spreads covid as well as anti-vaxx nonsens
#310: Novac Djokovic revisited – Djokovic-owned company QuantBioRes likened to homeopathy
Orthodox Church of Romania:
#262: Romanian six-week baby dies from baptism – no reform is planned
Pat Collins, Irish priest:
#110: Irish priest calls out for more exorcists
People who shares fake news:
#087: Fake news: Cure for Homosexuality
PiS:
#047: the governing Polish party.
#193: To the Polish ‘Law and Justice’ party for passing a law that criminalizes sex education for kids and says it is a form of paedophilia
#246: Poland rules abortion due to foetal defects unconstitutional
#302: Polish health minister says restrictions are not very effective at limiting pandemic
#311: Really Wrong (reprise): PiS for their abortion laws (again!) – Woman dies because denied abortion
Plandemic II:
#237: Plandemic full feature film released
the Polish Association of the Defenders of Human Life:
#318: the Polish Association of the Defenders of Human Life (anti-abortion): “Despite the experience of the cruelty of war, the world still divides children into ‘wanted’ and ‘unwanted’.”
Polish Episcopal Conference:
#239: Bishops in Poland Calling for Conversion Therapy Clinics
the Polish Life and Family Foundation:
#318: The Polish ‘Life and Family Foundation’ is handing out anti-abortion propaganda to arriving Ukraine refugees
Pope Francis:
#004: Pope Francis announces that Mother Teresa is to be canonized.
#109: The Pope: Third time’s a charm…
Portland Centre for Integrative Medicine:
#134: Portland Centre for Integrative Medicine
the pricipal at Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule Moers:
#230: GERMANY: Secondary School students in Germany don’t back down from their “tinfoil hat” project
Prince Charles:
#023: Prince Charles of the United Kingdom for promoting quackery
#177: Prince Charles has been announced a patron of the Faculty of Homeopathy which illustrates why monarchy is a stupid system.
#331: Prince Charles for his continued promotion of quackery
QAnon :
#278: QAnon conspiracy antivaxx nonsense organising in Sweden
Qi tech EMF protection devices:
#251: QI technology – another BS tech-scam
Rasmus Paludan:
#322: Riots in Sweden. Danish idiot Rasmus Paludan keeps burning the Quran to provoke unrest. Rioters, of course, are also wrong.
Religious exemptions for Corona restrictions:
#253: Special religious allowances for coronarestrictions in Germany, Sweden and elsewhere
Religious people of Segovia:
#158: SPAIN: Religious citizens tries to stop statue of the devil
Richard Gamble and the North Warwickshire borough council:
#241: Planned monument in Birmingham: “the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer”
Rioters in Sweden:
#322: Riots in Sweden. Danish idiot Rasmus Paludan keeps burning the Quran to provoke unrest. Rioters, of course, are also wrong.
Roman Ministry of Health:
#224: Romanian Ministry of Health failing regarding vaccination information
Russia:
#039: Russia – Youtuber in Russia arrested for playing Pokemon Go in a Church
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov:
#333: Russian cosmonauts (Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov) for waving flag of Russian (“self-“) proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic
Russian Government and Vladimir Putin:
#282: Russian food firm forced to retract lesbian family ad
#315: Russian government and Vladimir Putin spreading misinformation to justify invasion of Ukraine
#324: Bonus Bad: Russian campaign to paint Swedes as Nazis
“Safe Blood”:
#335: “Safe blood” – blood donation for people who insist on “unvaccinated blood”
Samhällsnytt (web site):
#217: Alt-right web site claims Swedish health authorities are implementing “death forms”
Schloss-Apotheke in Koblenz:
#273: German pharmacy sold a homeopathic version of the Pfizer vaccine
Sergei Lavrov:
#324: Lavrov says Hitler was part Jewish and that Jews usually are the most ardent anti-Semites
Shieldheadwear & Babypod:
#005: ShieldHeadWear & BabyPod
SL – Stockholm local train service:
#326: Stockholm local trains (SL) advertise for Scientology
Smirnoff:
#143: Really Wrong Smirnoff in playing the non-GMO & gluten-free cards…
Social media:
#144: Social media stops sex ed campaign
Social Media Influencers:
#169: Social media influencers give bad diet and fitness advice eight times out of nine
Spain:
#163: Blasphemy in Spain: Appeal court overturns acquittal of Femen protesters
St. Georgen Waldorfschule, Freiburg:
#301: Dodgy certificates for exemption from wearing masks leads to mass infections at Waldorf School
Steinar Thorvaldsen and Ola Hössjer:
#244: Scandinavian scientific(?) paper promoting Intelligent Design
Steiner Schools:
#289: Steiner schools in Sweden keep breaking the rules and is a terrible idea in the first place
Sweden Democrats Party:
#043: Swedish Democrat party moves to equate Alternative medicine with Conventional medicine
#057: Swedish Democrats denying climate change
Swedish Authorities:
#119: Swedish Authorities using bad statistics to determine age of migrants
#128: Swedish authorities spends lots of money on “Climate Therapy”
Swedish Christian Democrats:
#172: Swedish Christian Democrats leader: “Medical personnel should be allowed to refuse to do abortions”
Swedish Clinics:
#285: Really Wrong 1: Clinics allow patients to choose physicians based on ethnicity
Swedish Government:
#196: Sweden – Jehovah’s Witnesses to Receive Government Grants
Swedish regulations:
#209: SWEDEN: Acupuncturist Freed of Manslaughter Charges
Swedish Tantra Festival:
#287: SWEDEN: Tantra festival super spreader event
the Telegraph:
#021: The Telegraph for bad reporting on the topic of the health effects of eating chocolate
Thierry Baudet:
#348: Dutch MP Thierry Baudet believes Putin is our Dark Knight against the reptiles
Thinking Autism:
#321: Thinking Autism: Autism charity promotes CEASE therapy and their chief spreads anti-vaccine nonsense
Thomas Erikson:
#153: SWEDEN: Bewilderer of the year 2018: Thomas Erikson
Tobacco Industry:
#272: Tobacco Industry backed paper suggesting smoking is linked to lower COVID-19
Father Tomasz Kancelarczyk, head of the Little Feet Foundation:
#318: Father Tomasz Kancelarczyk, head of the Little Feet Foundation (anti-abortion): “There is no justice towards the unborn in Ukraine and in Russia”
Turkish Government:
#081: Turkey for making schools stop teaching evolution
#267: Turkey quits women’s rights treaty
UK College of Medicine and Integrated Health:
#205: College of Medicine and Integrated Health Offers Course in NLP
UK Home Office and Ministry of Justice:
#206: UK: Lie Detector Tests for Convicted Terrorists as a Security Measure
UK Ministry of Defense:
#220: UK Ministry of Defense buys lemon eucalyptus oil insect repellant as Covid-19 protection
UK National Lottery:
#336: UK National Lottery for funding homeopathy
University of Glasgow:
#126: Stupid study claims health problems are directly due to too much ‘screen time’, discounting other factors
University of Nicosia in Cyprus:
#075: Stupid study about female homosexuality
Ute Krüger:
#345: SWEDEN: Chief physician claims covid vaccines cause cancer. Her online videos get hundreds of thousands of views. The head of the region does nothing since she does it ‘in her spare time’
Vidar Clinic:
#099: Anthroposophic Vidar clinic
Viktor Orbán:
#249: Viktor Orbán for using the chaos caused by covid to come up with new homophobic regulations
#338: Viktor Orbán’s government for allowing clear-cutting of native forests in Hungary to tackle gas supply issues
#340: Hungarian Innovation minister Laszlo Palkovics for sacking weather chief over wrong forecast
VTDK:
#215: After Action From VtdK, the Royal Dutch Medical Association Again(!) Stops Accreditation of BS Therapy “PRI”
Wacław Depo, the archbishop of Częstochowa:
#318: Wacław Depo, the archbishop of Częstochowa, (anti-abortion): Ukraine war is bad and all that, but “we must not be enslaved by fears about the future and lose hope in the face of planned de-Christianisation and depopulation.”
Werlabs, Medisera and Blodkollen and others:
#337: Big business – Unnecessary blood tests for healthy people offered by Werlabs, Medisera and Blodkollen and others
WHO:
#141: WHO to include TCM in the ICD
#216: WHO Removes Advice to Not Use TCM Against covid-19
#344: WHO gets it wrong regarding artificial sweeteners
Winfried Stöcker:
#303: Doctor faces criminal charges after having administered 20k of his own vaccine
Xiao Hongchi:
#051: Chinese “healer” Xiao Hongchi charged for manslaughter in the UK
Zlatan Ibrahimovic:
#310: Zlatan Ibrahimovic gets a dishonorable mention for missing the point