This site originally had the strange title of "JAVASCRIPT FREE VERSION for Dr. Stephen Barrett , M.D.", which hardly describes the contents. It is now called "M.D.s , ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE , IATROGENIC DISEASE , MALPRACTICE AND MORE". It belongs to a chiropractor who doesn't want to be called "chiropractor" because he really wants to be a doctor. Why he would want to be a real doctor is a mystery because he seems to think that they spend all their time killing patients. I suppose that he knows that chiropractors aren't medical practitioners and he feels envious of people who have the education, skills and knowledge to treat diseases and make people well. Then again, maybe he doesn't want to be a doctor but is just ashamed of being called "chiropractor" because of the standard of education it indicates.

It doesn't seem to matter how many times the stories of co-existing dinosaur and human tracks are exposed as the lies they are, the nonsense still sticks around. I say "lies" because the people running this site cannot be unaware that when they say "Dinosaur & Human Footprints Together" they are not telling the truth. They claim to be Christians and even name their web site after the Bible, but either they haven't read the Bible or they missed the parts where God told them not to tell lies.

Following on from last year's winner, the execrable NAMBLA, here is the BoyLove Forum. It really strains the concept of freedom of speech to allow vermin like this to have a public voice. Unfortunately one of the prices of freedom is that rights extend to people whose views are absolutely worthless or, as in this case, worth less than nothing. Luckily, sensible legislatures around the world make a distinction between words and actions and throw people who do what is suggested here into prison where, with any luck, the perverts get just what we all want them to get. One of life's great pleasures is imagining a rock spider's first day in the exercise yard.

It is hard to imagine more stupid advice that telling people to stop eating food. It is equally hard to imagine how anyone could think that they could give this advice and get paid to give it. Not only that, but they then expect people to believe that they live without food themselves. The owner of Jasmuheen's Cosmic Internet Academy proved on Australian television during 2000 that she could not go even five days without food, but that has not stopped her touring around the world lying to people and stealing their money. I don't suppose any of the money will go to Verity Lynn or Lani Morris, but, being dead, they probably don't need it as much as Ellen Greve does.

One idea that won't seem to go away is that there are powerful forces combining to preserve their profits and make us all pay more for things. As the most expensive machine most of us will ever own is a car, it is no surprise that magic methods of making cars cheaper to run and more powerful have been turning up ever since Gottlieb Daimler fitted the first engine to a cart. Here is the Gasatomic fuel saving device which is guaranteed to reduce fuel consumption and make our cars less polluting. NASA probably use it on the space shuttle to reduce the fuel load. I have one question, though. If these things are so good, why are they not banned in Formula One racing and, as they are not banned, why don't the F1 teams use them. Ferrari must be stupid and have more money than sense.

If you wanted to find the antithesis of The Millenium Project, it would probably be Nexus Magazine. Not only is this rag full of advertisements for quack medical devices but the editorial pages only contain facts when a production or editing mistake occurs. Some of the stuff published there is relatively harmless, like the articles about UFOs and world conspiracies, but Nexus is one of the major outlets for the insanity of the anti-vaccination liars, electronic-healing-device purveyors, faith healers and any other sort of nonsense you can think of (and some you can't). I cannot imagine anything that would not get printed in Nexus (except for articles containing some truth). This award is to encourage them to improve the standard of the web site and bring it up to the level of the printed version. It will never be as useful as the paper copy, however, as it is impossible to punch a hole in the corner of a web page and hang it on a nail in the privy. (Note: The editor of Nexus Magazine told me that I am bad mannered and a fascist. This did not influence my choice for this award as my opinion of Nexus had been formed long before Mr Roads had ever heard of me.)

I have decided to give a general Encouragement Award to all those fools who keep emailing me with offers of fabulous wealth through pyramid schemes. I know they are called "network marketing" or "multi-level marketing" or some such euphemism to get around the law, but calling a duck "a dog" doesn't make it bark. Many of these people have web sites (some of which are listed here), and some even have pyramids of web sites. The reason they need encouragement is that if everything works out as it should and they sign up five people in the first month and each of them repeats the performance, and then the next level does it and so on (at least two Amway salesmen have told me that five per month easy to achieve), then they will be looking for only 244 million people to join their downline next December. Easy, isn't it?

Another Encouragement Award goes to one of last year's Highly Commended sites, the Army of God. Last year they were telling us how to murder doctors and do other Christian things to stop abortion. Their site disappeared for a while and has now returned as a very pale shadow of its former self, with just some pictures of aborted foetuses with cute names. So, come on, soldiers. Get into line, suck in those guts, and charge that hill. Tell us again how killing people is right because killing is wrong. Tell us again how Exodus 20:13 applies to them but not to you.

I don't think Sabine Baring-Gould and Arthur Sullivan were thinking of this army when they wrote Onward Christian Soldiers.