The Fourth Annual Vortex Awards

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* 1. The Abnormal Distribution - This award goes to the biggest butchery of statistics seen this year.

This fantastic graph of bandwidth over time

Bill Mitchell's... creative interpretation of Trump's approval ratings

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* 2. The Maximally Incomplete Theorem - This award goes to the worst application of mathematics or logic to a scenario or problem. No longer limited strictly to the Incompleteness Theorems.

Here is an asshole using a butchered imagining of the continuum hypothesis to trivialize rape.

Here's economist Robert Murphy using Cantor to BTFO socialism.

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* 3. The Golden Vortex - This award is for the "not even wrong" bad math out there. The biggest pile of gibbering nonsense that claims to reveal the secrets of mathematics to us mere mortals.

The long awaited arrival of Terryology

John McAfee's application of topology to bitcoin

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* 4. The Miles Mathis Award for Criminally Bad Mathematics - The is the gold standard of bad mathematics. This award is for the worst math submitted to this subreddit this year.

A scathing takedown of all of mathematics using kinder eggs.

Writing a crackpot screed is easy enough, but getting that screed published in the European Journal of Mathematical Sciences, creating an uproar, and forcing two editors-in-chief to resign? That's much harder. Not hard enough to stop Yaroslav Sergeyev, though.

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* 5. The Defener's Shield - This award is for that user who did more than just paste the link and run. I want to honor those users who try to improve the quality of this subreddit. This award will be given to the user who posted the best takedown of bad mathematics on the subreddit this year.

Ironically enough, it looks like /u/univalence will be taking home the shield this year for defending constructivism all throughout that thread and reddit in general. I'm not sure how that can happen, but they got someone to call an award winning mathematician a pseudomathematician, which deserves some sort of award by itself.