Most ‘dangerous’ anti-science GMO critic? Meet Mike Adams–Conspiracy junkie runs alternative ‘health’ empire

He just may be the most influential—and many scientists and science journalists say one of the most irresponsible—voices in the crusade to demonize GMOs and undermine the advances of modern medicine. You may not know him by name but he is a titan in the booming alternative lifestyle business, running numerous websites promoting ‘natural’ products or alternative cures, many of them suspect, bogus or potentially dangerous.

His name is Mike Adams, the self-proclaimed Health Ranger, and his central hub—what amounts to his personal blog and general store—is NaturalNews.com, which offers a potpourri of offbeat theories about politics, science and health.

(See herehereherehere and here for examples of persons, websites, products and cures promoted by Mike Adams and/or NaturalNews that mainstream scientists view as suspect, bogus or potentially dangerous.)

[Visit Mike Adams: GLP Facts for more background]

Adams, who appears to revel in headlines, even those that portray him as deranged, insinuated himself back in the news in late July with a full frontal attack on scientists and journalists who take a science-based perspective (as opposed to an ideological view) of agricultural biotechnology.

As journalist Keith Kloor wrote on July 22–Mike Adams, Monsanto, Nazis and a very disturbing article–Adams appears to have gone off the psychological deep end, calling for a mass uprising against agricultural biotechnology, including killing–yes, murder–of anyone–scientists, policy official or journalist–that wants to give the emerging technology a fair shake.

As Kloor writes in a follow up commentary on July 24: “The article was accompanied by Nazi imagery and horrible pictures of the Holocaust. Adams equated Hitler’s propagandists with today’s media outlets and journalists who “have signed on to accelerate heinous crimes being committed against humanity under the false promise of ‘feeding the world’ with toxic GMOs.”

“As if this wasn’t bad enough,” Kloor writes, “Adams then chillingly suggests (his emphasis)…”

that it is the moral right — and even the obligation — of human beings everywhere to actively plan and carry out the killing of those engaged in heinous crimes against humanity.

“This creepy, disturbing rant has taken a darker turn,” Kloor adds. “Today, I woke up to an update posted by Adams:

After this story was first published, someone has indeed launched a website that appears to be inspired by a suggestion from this story. The Monsanto Collaborators website lists the names of journalists and publications that the site says have contributed to the agricultural genocide of GMOs, comparing the 250,000+ suicides caused by GMOs to “genocide” and the Holocaust.

“Yeah, we can guess who that “someone” is,” Kloor writes. “This update by Adams singles out Jon Entine and the ‘Monsanto Collaborators’ website lists a number of publishers and journalists, including myself.”

Here is Kloor’s reactions to Adams first deranged post.

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I really thought Mike Adams couldn’t write anything more possibly deranged than he already has at his Natural News website. (Readers of this blog have seen a freaky side of Adams.) Jon Entine has the scoop on his editorial output and alt-med empire. Entine’s piece, which Forbes cravenly took down (after Adams threatened to sue), asked if Adams was the “most ‘dangerous’ anti-science GMO critic?”

That was meant as a rhetorical question, since Adams spouts all manner of outrageous misinformation on GMOs. But after reading the latest piece on GMOs by Adams, I have to wonder if he is literally dangerous. Here’s the title of his piece:

Biotech genocide, Monsanto collaborators and the Nazi legacy of ‘science’ as justification for murder

Here’s how it starts:

(NaturalNews) Monsanto is widely recognized as the most hated and most evil corporation on the planet. Even so, several internet-based media websites are now marching to Monsanto’s orders, promoting GMOs and pursuing defamatory character assassination tactics against anyone who opposes GMOs, hoping to silence their important voices. … All of them are Monsanto collaborators who have signed on to accelerate heinous crimes being committed against humanity under the false promise of “feeding the world” with toxic GMOs.

He goes on to talk about Nazi collaborators and how this history has a modern-day parallel:

Today, a number of once-independent media sites are selling out to corporate interests and quickly becoming Monsanto collaborators. This is readily apparent by noticing which media sites attack Dr. Mercola, the Food Babe, Jeffrey Smith, the Health Ranger or anyone else fighting against the scourge of GMO genocide against humanity. These attacks all have one thing in common: they are orchestrated by paid biotech muckrakers — people I call “Monsanto collaborators.”

But towards the end is where this rant turns really disturbing:

Interestingly, just yesterday German President Joachim Gauck celebrated the lives of those brave Nazi officers who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. Their attempted Wolf’s Lair bombing failed, but it was an honorable attempt to rid the world of tremendous evil by killing one of the people responsible for it.

This official ceremony sends a message to the world, and that official message from the nation of Germany to the rest of the world says that it is the moral right — and even the obligation — of human beings everywhere to actively plan and carry out the killing of those engaged in heinous crimes against humanity.

Adams bolded those words for emphasis. What do you think he’s suggesting there? Maybe Dr. Oz could ask him the next time he invites Adams on to his show.

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What’s the skinny on Michael Adams?

Adams NaturalNews site is the cyberspace version of the water cooler gathering spot for crackpot conspiracy theorists of the far left and right. His byline: “never trust official stories”. Brian Dunning, author of five books on science skepticism and editor of award-winning Skeptoid site, named NaturalNews.com number one on his list of “Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites.” Adams’ latest crusade: governments around the world are covering up the fact that the doomed Malaysian Airlines jetliner was pirated safely to a desert hideaway by Iranian hijackers, where it was refitted into a stealth nuclear bomb.

Adams himself or the site that he edits has claimed (and here) that high-dose Vitamin C injections, which he conveniently sells, have been shown to “annihilate cancer” (doctors warn high doses of vitamin C can be dangerous); that measles and mumps are making a comeback because vaccines are “designed to fail” (Adams calls approved vaccines “poison” although he claims he is not against vaccines, just current versions because they contain “mercury or other chemical preservatives”); and that fluoridated water causes mental disorders and other health problems. He calls the AIDS epidemic a myth (and here) and is a believer in ‘dangerous chemtrails,’ which mainstream science says are harmless to humans. For years, Adams had been a Barack Obama birther, questioning the President’s citizenship.

Although Adams has not disavowed the Obama myth or any of his past conspiracy assertions, he has cleansed his site of that particular claim.

The United States government is often at the center of his conspiratorial universe. Adams has often claimed that secret government forces have hired private military contractors to stage terrorist attacks or violent incidents to justify government surveillance and a more intense police presence–what he calls “false flag” incidents. Here’s Adams claiming the Aurora theater shooting was a false flag operation. “Who are the terrorists?” he wrote in a 2013 post hinting that the US might have been behind the Boston marathon bombings.

“It’s far too early to take an informed guess on all this. However, it is indisputable that the FBI is actively engaged in carrying out bomb plots in the United States, then halting them at the last minute to “catch the terrorists. … It is theoretically possible that one of the FBI’s many “terror plots” went too far and turned into a live bomb instead of a dud followed by an arrest for “domestic terrorism.”

Adams has been less circumspect about 9/11, which he has characterized as a full scale false flag event (although some articles on NaturalNews touting this “theory” have disappeared in recent months). Like many recently purged links, a NaturalNews.com article about the secret “truth” of the World Trade Center disasters –http://www.naturalnews.com/033684_911_truth_WTC_7.html–now takes you to a note written by Adams in the third person that reads: “In late 2013/early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist. He now runs the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, conducting world-class food science research and publishing scientific papers on food contaminants and nutritional analytics.” David Gorski, the well respected “Orac” of ScienceBlogs, has written two hilarious take-downs of Adams’ born-again scientific pretensions (here and here).

Adams’ most heated attacks—ones that generate the most traffic and business on his websites and have made him a oft-cited hero of anti-GMOers—are directed at conventional agriculture, crop biotechnology in particular. In a recent screaming but typical headline, Adams claimed that research at his Natural News Forensic Food Labs has turned up unequivocal evidence that corporations are intentionally engineering “life-destroying toxins” into our food supply, with genetically modified corn as one of the chief ‘weapons against humanity.’ His recommendation: buy the natural products that he sells and rid the world of GMOs.

Considering Adams’ conspiratorial bent, in his zeal to bash genetic engineering he takes every opportunity to promote junk science studies, spread innuendo and play the corporate greed card. No one would characterize his views as nuanced. “Monsanto’s products cause death,” he writes in a typical post, calling the seed and chemical company a “pusher” for selling “poison” and blaming it for the “destruction of humanity.”

His evidence: like many dedicated anti-GMO ideologues, Adams hypes discredited fringe research, such as the 2012 maize cancer rat study by French scientist Gilles-Erich Séralini, which was widely ridiculed by mainstream scientists after its release in September 2012. Adams’ sensationalist account claimed that GMO corn caused “horrifying cancer tumors,” and NaturalNews.com featured grotesque pictures of twisted rats. The study was since retracted by the publishing journal because of its inconclusive results and shoddy data. But Adams’s “reporting” had long since done its damage. His article on the Séralini research was shared more than 81,000 times on Facebook.

Adams frequently goes personal. “From the top company executives to the bottom of the corporate ladder,” he writes, “people who work for Monsanto are engaged in promoting a sickening, unprecedented evil that’s spreading across our planet like a black slimy cancer tumor. … GMO-promoting scientists.” he continues:

[A]re the most despicable humanoid creatures to have ever walked the surface of this planet. To call them “human” is an insult to humanity. They are ANTI-human. They are demonic. They are forces of evil that walk among the rest of us, parading as authorities when in their hearts and souls they are actually corporate cowards and traitors to humankind. To pad their own pockets, they would put at risk the very future of sustainable life on our planet…and they do it consciously, insidiously. They feed on death, destruction, suffering and pain. They align with the biotech industry precisely because they know that no other industry is as steeped in pure evil as the biotech industry. GMO pushers will lie, cheat, steal, falsify and even mass-murder as many people as it takes to further their agenda of total global domination over the entire food supply… at ANY cost.

Adams is also a proponent of GMO labeling, which he believes would stigmatize GM crops and foods, undoubtedly pumping sales of his alternative universe of ‘natural food’ and health goods. After the defeat of Washington state labeling Initiative 522, Adams, issued what bordered on a lawless ‘call to arms.’ “The failure of 522 … shows that democracy itself doesn’t work,” he wrote on another one of his blogs, Dark Politricks. His solution? Go rogue. Adams called on anti-GMO activists to adopt “asymmetrical warfare tactics such as guerilla warfare. … To beat them at that game, you have to take off the kid gloves and go for their throats.” Based on Adams history, the call may not have been metaphorical.

Adams is open about his business model: play on fear to make as much money as possible. To dispel any doubts about his real motivations, in 2008, he bragged publicly in his self-published book, The 7 Principles of Mindful Wealth, that his operating philosophy was “Getting past self-imposed limits on wealth… Karma doesn’t pay the rent. Good karma isn’t the recognized currency in modern society: Dollars are!”

To peddle the alternative nostrums that have helped build his fortune, Adams owns, runs or has operated hundreds of domains, including prenatalnutrition.org, expectant-mothers.com, NewsTarget.com, HoodiaFactor.com, EmergingFuture.com, SpamAnatomy.com, VitaminFactor.org, CounterThink.com, HealthFactor.info, JunkScience.info, BrainHealthNews.com, LowCholesterolDiets.DietsLink.com, PublicHealthNews.org, PharmaWatch.info, HomeToxins.com, PoisonPantry.org, DepressionFactor.org, webseed.com and ConsumerWellness.org. He or his company uses dozens of privacy and open web registrations, some of which are currently active websites and some of which (e.g., hoodia.com) are being used to redirect visitors to other Adams’ run websites. Adams “webseed” and “truth in publishing” company aliases have over 200 domains and 45 live hosted (as of May 12, 2014) websites. Others are “parked” but have been used in the past Adams has owned or operated a string of fringe health scare sites (many of which are now dormant),

Promoting terrorist scares is Adams stock and trade. In 1998 he launched the Y2K Newswire promoting apocalyptic claims of impending software disaster while offering sales of emergency preparedness products and foods. The attention he received helped jumpstart his online store. Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, he wrote that “deadly radiation” … “spans oceans and continents,” implying that people thousands of miles distant from the damaged reactors could suffer serious health consequences, an apparent attempt to panic his readers into buying useless “FDA approved” potassium iodide treatments and storable uncontaminated super foods that he sold on his site. But that did get him a mention on the sin qua non of conspiracy programs, the wacky Alex Jones Show, which Adams had previously guest hosted—further stoking his notoriety among the fringe set.

Although he fashions himself as a lone ranger fighting against corporate giants, Adams was the founder and C.E.O. of Arial Software, whose clients reportedly include include Microsoft, Ebay and DHL. He has boasted that he has 10,000 customers and an estimated $50 million in annual sales. Arial has offices in the US and Taiwan, which is where Natural News has its corporate base, known as Truth Publishing International. Natural News’ business address is an abandoned building in Tucson, Arizona.

The media and science community have a uniformly unforgiving view of Adams and his pseudo-science. After responding to one of Adams’s attacks on vaccines, David Gorski, the well respected “Orac” of ScienceBlogs, wrote: “If only there were a vaccine against the quackery, paranoia, conspiracy theories, and utter nonsense that is concentrated into the density of a black hole in the form of Mike Adams.” (See herehereherehereherehere and here for tiny selection of dozens of critiques on Adams and NaturalNews.com by scientists and prominent journalists.)

But that hasn’t stopped Adams and NaturalNews from becoming one of the most cited—indeed respected—sites by mainstream anti-GMO advocacy groups. There is symbiotic relationship between organic activists and Adams. The Health Ranger regularly pushes organic slams of GMO foods and publishes extended “aren’t we both great” interviews with Organic Consumers Association founder Ronnie Cummins, only to be richly rewarded in return. He also works hand in glove with the anti-GMO Cornucopia Institute, a non-profit group with historical ties to Organic Valley Cooperative (for years Mark Kastel, Cornucopia’s founder and long time director, was simultaneously an executive at OVC and Cornucopia). Cornucopia has featured an anti-government rant by Adams and NaturalNews while Adams has plugged Cornucopia on NaturalNews and interviewed Kastel when he guest hosted the Alex Jones conspiracy show InfoWars. Adams also cross promotes books and websites with well known anti-GMO huckster, Jeffrey Smith, the former yogic instructor and founder of his one man NGO, the Institute of Responsible Technology.

It would be a combination of laughable and sad if Adams wasn’t so prolific in his scare mongering and influential with the credulous public that takes as gospel his top ranked health and medical entries on Google. Adams has become a master of Internet visibility. He claims more than 360,000 “confirmed, double-opt-in” subscribers to his daily newsletter. NaturalNews has more than 139,000 indexed pages alone referencing unsubstantiated cancer causes and off label treatments on his website. That helps him generate huge traffic volume. He garners more than 4 million unique monthly visitors to his combined empire of websites.

Third party rating service Compete.com estimates traffic to his most influential site, NaturalNews.com, at 1.1—1.7 million unique visitors per month and ranks the site at 1,549. By comparison, that’s better than the Cleveland Clinic and 4-to-5 times the traffic of the Mayo Clinic. The US government’s official cancer website Cancer.gov gets about one-half of Adam’s estimated monthly traffic (700,000 monthly visitors). NaturalNews.com receives 20 times more visitors than the official government site on alternative medicines—the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine website—which receives only 73,000 visitors, and is not even ranked.

This makes Mike Adams a very powerful—and according to many scientists and science journalists a very dangerous—man.

See also: Mike Adams: GLP Facts

Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, is a senior fellow at the Center for Health & Risk Communication and STATS (Statistical Assessment Service) at George Mason University. Follow @JonEntine on Twitter

 

111 thoughts on “Most ‘dangerous’ anti-science GMO critic? Meet Mike Adams–Conspiracy junkie runs alternative ‘health’ empire”

  1. Many thanks for this article. It really helps to know who is out there and what their agendas are!

    Yesterday a retired PhD entomologist cited this to me:
    http://earthopensource.org/index.php/reports/58

    She was arguing against GM foods. I looked it up, considered it, and from it confirmed one of my basic tenets, i.e., no matter what the degree or background, many people argue first and foremost from their emotions or motivations. Reason is just too difficult for most people, I guess, including some people who have scientific training. If something’s nuanced, or otherwise not black/white, they appear unable to live comfortably with the complexity. It seems it’s easier for them to turn a finding into a conspiracy than it is to decide that something is complicated, or has both pros and cons.

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  2. Everytime I see that ‘Health Ranger’ thing, I think of Buzz Lightyear. But I think I’m going to start a new team: The Dunning-Kruger All Stars. You know…people so delusional about their own lack of knowledge, they can’t walk three steps without shouting ‘SHILL!’.

    Charter members would be: Mike Adams, Vandana Shiva, Claire Robinson, Jeffrey Smith, Jeremy Rifkin (emeritus member), ‘DR.’ Mercola, Jon Fagan, Gilles-Erich Séralini, Judy Carman, Dr. Oz (sorry dude, stick to surgery), Irina Ermakova. I’m sure I left out a few…please fill in as you see fit. Happy April Fools’ Day.

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    • how about this noble prize winner?
      Linus Pauling

      He was, after all, the leading chemist of the last century and, arguably, the greatest ever American scientist. He remains the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes, the first for Chemistry (1954) and the second for peace (1962)

      He took on the medical establishment because the implication for health was enormous: an end to premature death and unnecessary suffering from heart disease, infection and many cancers.

      http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/12154.php

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      • I listened to Pauling give a speech at Mizzou back in 1973. He seemed almost demented. He wouldn’t give up on the vitamin C issue for any price.

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      • I don’t care if he has 10 Nobels…if you can’t back up your claims with peer reviewed studies that can be independently duplicated, it’s all talk. Appeals to Authority are considered fallacious for a reason.

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        • how will the drug companies make money if vitamin and herbs fix these problems? this has nothing to do with health, and everything to do with money…. where do you think the research money come from?????

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          • Don’t mind Shawn. He’s a moron with no interest in discussing actual facts presented to him and will in turn just cut and paste someone else’s nutcase ramblings, then change the subject. He’s not mentally capable of dealing with facts that negate his position.

          • Yeah, falling back on conspiracy theories is a sure sign that he has nothing factual to offer.

        • they can’t patent vitamins so there is zero interest in proving vitamins can help people. would you spend millions of dollars in proving something in nature can help people, when anyone can make the vitamins….. or would you rather prove your drug can do the same, but only you can make it……..hard choice…..lol

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      • Why didn’t you mention Pauling’s ties with Hoffmann-La Roche,
        the pharmaceutical giant that produces most of the world’s vitamin
        C?

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  3. He does a good job at lazy interpretations of scholarly work, bending them to fit his agenda. My favorite was how “Monsanto’s Roundup Linked to Infertility”. He was talking about the report by Claire (& Seralini) et al. that did dose-response curves of glyphosate toxicity on cultured cells. They showed that at the lowest concentration of glyphosate there was a statistically significant (like 10%) decrease in testosterone production from Leydig cells.

    To me, a dose-response failure of small magnitude in a system not relevant to whole-organism biology was boring science with overreaching interpretations. To Adams– hard evidence of conspiratorial population control.

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    • insecticides are poison…..why put it in our food?????….breathing it…..getting it on your skin is poison and taking it internally…doesn’t make sense to me

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      • Bonnie, if you think insecticides are unnecessary to grow food then obviously you don’t eat organic food as organic farmers used pesticides and herbicides just as conventional farming. Plus, all plants–foods–have insecticides built in. 99% of the pesticides you consume are in the food naturally. Thankfully our body processes pesticides, natural and synthetic, rendering them harmless. But some pesticides, like natural Rotenone used by organic farmers, can be extremely dangerous.

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      • Bonnie, this is the problem. The term “insecticide” needs a little nuance.

        If you were a corn farmer, and there was a product that only killed the worms that ate the ends off of your corn cobs and destroyed your profits… that would be a good thing.

        What if this product didn’t affect birds, humans or other insects, but killed the ones that ate your corn?

        What if it just affected the larvae, the caterpillar stage of certain moths?

        Wow. That would be good stuff. That’s BT toxin, a protein toxic to those specific pests. That’s the stuff organic growers have been using for ages.

        Now what if you could get the corn to make that same protein? That’s Bt corn and Bt cotton. They make the protein that kills those larvae.

        Is it an “insecticide”? I guess. It kills that insect. Does it kill all insects? No, not even close. Does not even make them behave funny.

        So maybe this should make sense to you. A protein is made by the corn that harms a specific pest.

        The alternative is to have the spray plane come over with broad-spectrum insecticide and kill every critter in the field and leave residues that have environmental and potential health impacts.

        If you think about it this way, that the corn-made insecticide (all plants make hundreds of insecticides) kills a specific pest and stops environmental input.

        That’s a pretty huge score for science, farmers and the environment.

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  4. Yes, Mike Adams fits the definition of a “crackpot.” But that doesn’t mean that government websites are any more valid than his. They have their own brand of scare-mongering and prevarication for whatever agendas they’re currently pimping.

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    • And your proof that government Web sites are deliberately lying to us exists in reputable sources and not conspiracy scare sites like Natural News…right?

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  5. amazing promoting natural cures i.e. vitamins and herbs (which most of the rest of the world takes as medicine….especially Japan which has the best health overall for people…. makes you a dangerous man? Just like saying GMO foods are unsafe just like the rest of the world preaches especially Europe????? there is a reason why american have poor health yet spend the most more on health care…….. if you don’t take advice from someone who is bankrupt. why would you take health advice from people who are sick?

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    • What exactly do vitamins and herbs cure? There is a growing body of literature suggesting that vitamins don’t help, at best, and at worst, can harm.

      As for GMO safety, the “rest of the world”, at least in the scientific community, seems to be in near-universal agreement about that topic: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/08/27/glp-infographic-international-science-organizations-on-crop-biotechnology-safety/#.UyPclfldXU0

      If the Japanese are healthier than Americans, could there perhaps be a different explanation? A simpler one, perhaps?

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      • just in my own experience, warts, nail fungus, common cold, parasite infection……. yeah, and if you listen to bill gates Ted talks he wants to use health care and and vaccines to reduce the population……what’s more simple than a health diet? oh and do you also believe the lie that all scientist believe in global warming? there are many scientist on both sides (warming and health) look it up for yourself. there are many lies the media tries to sell you, just amazing how many people out there are willing to believe without looking up the facts themselves…….

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        • I’ve followed Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation pretty closely. I must have missed the TED Talk where he talks about killing people with vaccines.

          As for your anecdotes – reproduce your findings in a controlled scientific context and then we’ll talk.

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          • He was talking about birth control limiting the population, and yes he loves vaccines because they save lives, despite the bullshit you believe from your pseudoscience messiah Adams. Bill Gates has spent a lot more money on charity and has saved a lot more lives than you. Keep up the internet pseudoscience campaign, though, and watch out for those chemtrails! lol.

          • if vaccines saves lives why would that bring down the population???? why would he mention it here…… your not making any sense

          • You can pretend that’s what he said if you like. I’m not too concerned about your chances of reproducing anyway.. He is talking about a net effect, with the largest number being negative due to birth control.

          • yes, when people kill other people, the population goes down….. that does not explain why he talking about vaccines

          • You are an imbecile who would walk off a cliff if a doctor insisted that you do it. The medical industry is a fraud, and makes money off of idiots like you.

          • lol, just to let you know your calling the work of Dr. Maurice Hilleman (the man who made most of the recent vacciness) pseudoscience. lol, maybe you should look at both side of a debate before you start talking about something you don’t know much about….. the video right here…..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrzN9onj1AQ#t=31

          • Ah I see, you have trouble with reading comprehension. As usual, you are wrong, and it is Adams who I called the pseudoscience Messiah. Maybe you should look at actual science and learn something. Look at both sides? I take it you’ve read through this thread then? https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-the-vaccine-hoax-is-over-jcvi.1585/

            Sorry, I don’t take my medical advice from keyboard warriors that rely on YOUTUBE videos as their science. lol

        • It’s just amazing how special you must be to have figured it all out without any actual evidence or real information. Congrats!

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          • Nah you are misinterpreting what he is saying to make yourself feel special.

          • so please explain it to me, why is he talking about vaccines and lowering the population???? lol, this should be good!

          • I understand this is a hard concept for you, but he is referring to a group of beneficial areas. Your ignoring the fact that he is talking about birth control is telling, though.

          • beneficial areas of heatlh care would reduce population???? (in bill’s own words) “now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive heath services…..we could perhaps lower that by 10 to 15 percent…..(i.e. the population)…… how is that beneficial???? how will better medicine reduce the population? i always thought better medicines keep people alive……birth control either prevents babies from being born or in some cases kills the new born baby. again this in no way helps your argument. (because it lower the population)

          • The most obvious sign of a conspiracy nut is the way they ignore mountains of evidence, consensus, and dialogue to cherry-pick some tiny detail they can misinterpret and make grand, diabolical claims about. You have hours of talks by bill gates to choose from, countless interviews and videos, showing how he and his wife have spent a fortune on improving health care around the world for those less fortunate. The fact that you just sit here and try and claim this video shows anything sinister reflects more on you than bill gates. There is no evidence showing vaccines are harmful. You have nothing convincing to show here, so you post stupid video clips. Please go learn how science works, find your actual evidence based on the scientific method (hint, a TED talk is not evidence), then come back and let us know how it went.

          • ah, so after quoting bill, you have given up on misquoting bill and starting attacking me instead…..study after study shows the people who get vaccines are the ones that get sick later on……i don’t need a study to prove to me toxic metals are bad. but if you do….

          • who says i have to prove a single one, if you want to be ignorant that your choice…..

          • The word was provide. I think it’s clear to everyone who is ignorant here. MSNBC lol.

          • -In 1871-2 England, with 98% of the population aged between 2 and 50 vaccinated against smallpox, it experienced its worst ever smallpox outbreak with 45,000 deaths. During the same period in Germany, with a vaccination rate of 96%, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox. (The Hadwen Documents)

            – In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in 1940, and by 1945, diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don’t Get Stuck, Hannah Allen)

            – In 1967, Ghana was declared measles-free by the World Health Organization after
            96% of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr. H. Albonico, MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990)

            – In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre, UK)

            – In the 1970s, a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. (The Lancet 12/1/80 p73)

            – In 1977, Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along with other scientists that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most polio cases throughout the USA since 1961. (Science 4/4/77 “Abstracts”)

            – In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its ineffectiveness. Out of 5,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84% had been vaccinated three times! (BMJ 283:696-697, 1981)

            -The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine.

            – In Oman between 1988 and 1989, a polio outbreak occurred amongst thousands of
            fully vaccinated children. The region with the highest infection rate had the highest vaccine coverage. The region with the lowest infection rate had the lowest vaccine coverage. (The Lancet, 21/9/91)

            – In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue, a study found that over 80%
            of children under 5 years of age who had contracted whooping cough had been fully vaccinated.

            – In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article on measles which stated, “Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated children.” (JAMA, 21/11/90)

          • according to you link…..There is no such thing as the “Community Disease Surveillance Centre” in the UK, or anywhere. funny a quick google search brings this up……http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page.cfm?orgId=457&pid=25313 whit an adddress of The CDSC postal address is:
            Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre
            Public Health Wales
            Temple of Peace and Health
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            lol

          • That’s so cute how you seize on one piece of irrelevant information and ignore the entirety of the post. Here’s a challenge for you then. Post a link to the CDSC page they use as a source. When you can’t find it (because it doesn’t exist), then come back here and apologize, then post a response to the rest of the total debunking on that page. Unfortunately we all know you will do none of this, because your brain is nonfunctional.

          • Ah I see, you don’t understand how facts work. The author missed that web site, but his point remains. There is no source for your claim. The statement you made:

            “- In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre, UK)”

            Please provide a link to this data on the CDSC web site, otherwise you might as well have made it up (who are we kidding? you aren’t smart enough for that, you just copy and pasted). Obviously you don’t have better things to do with your time, because you spend it all posting other people’s nutcase bullshit on the internet.

          • being that that article is most likely over 20 years old, i would not expect to find it on their web site…. beside as i have already stated the author is a liar…..why believe any thing he claims……

          • It’s interesting that you accept the claim you’ve posted with zero evidence of it being true (oh it’s old, it must be true! lol), then conveniently ignore all of the other claims by the author with cited sources and facts by calling him a liar. LOL. So brainwashed.

          • lol, the author uses circular reasoning and most times does not even contradict the quote….. for example….
            In Oman between 1988 and 1989, a polio outbreak occurred amongst thousands of fully vaccinated children. The region with the highest infection rate had the highest vaccine coverage. The region with the lowest infection rate had the lowest vaccine coverage. (The Lancet, 21/9/91) The case of Oman demonstrates how response to the oral vaccine can vary widely within individual countries. Yes, vaccines efficacy can very due to a number of circumstances. So what? Everywhere you see decline in polio (most of the world), vaccinations are the cause.

            no where in the response does the author even try to attempt to try to explain why the highest infection rates come from the area with people who had the highest vaccination rates….. what circumstances???? pulling things out of thin air and you expect me to believe that……lol

          • Again your claim is false. And as expected, no response to your debunked claim about Jonas Salk. No point in talking to you any further since you just ignore the facts anyway. Keep those blinders on and run away from every point disproved so you never have to admit what a fucking idiot you are! Good luck with that!

          • LOL omg this guy thinks “nsnbc.me” is msnbc. Since you’re clearly dumb enough to believe that I won’t waste anymore of my time with you.

          • Since you found one paper, I guess I’ll give you one more response. It could be a number of things. Your posted “study” is just an opinion piece with no original research and the sources it links to are a self-published study on the internet as well as a study not published in any journal. This is not a convincing study.

            Being concerned about overpopulation of humans in general is not eugenics. Supporting programs that make effective birth control and family planning services available to allow women to have control of their own fertility is not eugenics. Recognizing that people who have every reason to expect their children will survive to adulthood tend to choose to have fewer children and so programs such as those supplying clean water, food, medical care, and vaccines can help reduce population growth is not eugenics.

            It is not at all surprising that at someone who made his fortune from technology is most interested in technological means of solving problems related to sanitation, food production, and fighting diseases. This is a man using his own fortune with the stated goals of trying to decrease hunger, poverty, and disease. Attempts such as yours to vilify him as some sort of evil monster who is deliberately trying to poison people are just ridiculous, especially when you can’t even be bothered to figure out what site you are getting your propaganda from.

            OPV is a live vaccine and very rarely does cause paralysis, which is why it is no longer used in North America. However, it is cheaper, easier to administer, and most importantly by far, it produces a far better immune response than IPV, which is why it is still used in many parts of the world which still have polio.

            It’s not at all accurate to say that the 48,000 children being discussed were paralysed by the vaccine. AFP can be caused by several other diseases besides polio including West Nile Virus, enteroviruses, and GBS among many others. It can also be caused by botulism poisoning and some other naturally occurring poisons such as certain snake bites.

            It happens everywhere. The concern right now though is that rates of it in India are far greater than anywhere else, and no one knows why this is. There does seem to be some correlation between OPV doses and AFP rates in different parts of India, and this certainly is worrisome and must be investigated further to see if the relationship is causal. The OPV in India is the same that is still used in several other countries (including Japan) and was used in the US just over a decade ago, so why do they not have the same extremely high levels? Also, OPV doses given in India have been decreasing over the last several years at the same time as AFP cases have been increasing. Something is going on in India, and more research needs to be done, but you certainly haven’t proven any link between the vaccines and AFP, and your attempts to portray Bill Gates as the villain are completely unfounded.

          • you can cut and paste, good job!…… one problem why would someone who believes in natural health make a documentary mocking it…..

          • If you would read what is readily available and educate yourself, no cut and pasting would be necessary. I’ll leave you alone with your rhetorical questions of stupidity.

          • In 2011, there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the
            incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. Though this data was collected within the polio surveillance system, it was not investigated. http://www.whale.to/v/polioaccuteflacid.pdf how convenient for them this was never investigated…….so what to you think the chances are that it would be propotionional????? funny how people use any excuse to not to accept the truth…..

          • Unfortunately you can’t just repeatedly post a link to a bad study and somehow it becomes a good one. As I have already detailed the problems with this opinion piece, no further comment is needed. Please try and keep up.

          • i never said i though bill gates was a villain. you just assumed that… i think he is trying to do good, but as the good book says “the love of money is the root of all evil” and the drug/vaccines companies don’t want to share any of it……

          • your the one that brought of the topic of how you though i though bill gates was evil……… so you can go off topic but i cannot…..lol no double standard there….. your own words…..The fact that you just sit here and try and claim this video shows anything sinister reflects more on you than bill gates.

          • Are you mentally ill? Your whole point is that Bill Gates is killing people. Now that you have no response to anything in my reply, you just post this garbage. Since you’ve shown everyone what a moron you are, I’ll move on now. Have fun in mommy’s basement!

          • typical liberal response, if you can’t win with the facts…… insult the other side….

          • Well I am not liberal, but that’s so completely unrelated to this conversation that it’s funny you’d make such a comment. I guess when you can’t respond to any of the facts I’ve posted (seriously, pick a single one and respond to it), you just write something like that. Typical nut behavior. Ignore all facts and change the subject.

          • Again all you can do is cherry-pick your own line from a talk as if it is some sort of actual evidence of anything. What bill gates says is not evidence. Please learn how science works.

          • Hey cool, you can quote some random shit from the internet. Good job google warrior! Maybe you should find a study providing the evidence for your claims that vaccines are harmful and post it here. Otherwise, stop with the ridiculous links to random junk web sites and pseudoscience idiot havens.

          • how is posting from the father of vacciness and other experts who say it’s deadly random?

          • Maybe you should find a study providing the evidence for your claims that vaccines are harmful and post it here. Put up or shut up.

    • Correlation does not imply causation…

      More importantly, fearing GMO’s is tantamount to climate change denial and being an anti-vaxxer: it just amounts to not taking time to understand the science or not trusting scientists who take time to explain to you how these things work.

      Your so called “natural cures” aren’t actually cures unless they have active ingredients in them. For vitamins, they are needed for an organism to function properly and to have a proper metabolism; they won’t fight disease. Herbs, if they have an active ingredient (many have caffeine or some sort of pain killer) will have an effect, but won’t actually fight the disease if one is ill.

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      • They way they were when? Seeds have been constantly evolving with mans help. Going back to the way they were is a stupid idea. Most of the world’s population would starve to death.

        Reply
        • This:

          “Seeds have been constantly evolving with mans help.”

          Should be this:

          “Seeds have been constantly evolving.”

          Yes, plants have been aided by artificial selection, but let’s not forget that no plant that we know of today would exist without first having evolved through “descent with modification” before being humans came along and forced them into their current… unique status.

          No doubt that some people, like Bonnie, are pretty much completely unaware of the history of the development of angiosperms and have long since bought into the Organic Industry-funded anti-GE movement’s pseudoscience.

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      • i have not stated anything about what people believe. your just throwing that in there so you have an excuse…

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  6. What’s the point? Humanity is devolving to an unthinking animal state. You can’t stop things like this. People are complete, idiot scum.

    Reply
    • Devolution is misnomer. There is only evolution and it is not inherently positive or negative.

      Mankind has always been stupid and the internet just exposes it better.

      Reply
      • lol, you should talk to a bog breeder, they only get smaller….keep on breeding a good hunting dog with other dog, and soon enough it will be just a house dog that can’t do anything useful…….

        Reply
        • So… what, exactly?

          Again, not inherently positive or negative. Evolution has no end goal, and is all based upon environmental pressures on the animal.

          We, as humans, read into neutral things as something we either like or don’t. We decide if something is “positive” or “negative”, “useful” or “useless”, not evolution.

          Devolution is still a complete misnomer.

          Reply
          • how do you rate progress if there is no positive or negative results…..lol so according to you there is no such thing as progress either…..lol such folly…….

          • There is no such thing as progress when looking at something objectively instead of subjectively like most humans do.

            lol such folly

  7. To the Tune of Officer Krupke (Westside Story)

    ACTION:

    Dear Dr. Mercola,
    You gotta understand.
    Your potions are just cola
    Your quackery’s out of hand!
    Your patients are all junkies,
    for Holistics, should be banned.
    Holy, Moses ! You’re a scheister upon the land !

    ACTION AND JETS:

    Oh, Dr. Mercola, we’re very upset!
    You gives us magic tonics in place of what we should get.
    We ain’t no dummies, it’s really understood.
    Deep down, you know they’re no good !

    ACTION:

    They’re no good ?

    ALL:

    They’re no good, they’re no good
    They are no damn good !
    They never do anywhere near what they should !
    They should put a halt, to your himalayan salt!
    Cause, deep down, you know it’s no good !

    ACTION:

    Hey, Mr. Mike Adams,
    of Natural News
    We’re not acceptin’
    your extremely dim views.
    Scientists you bully
    And science you also lack.
    Holy, Jesus! You whole site’s out of wack !

    Oh, Mr. Mike Adams, we’re very upset!
    You sell us crazy concoctions, their claims are all wet !
    We ain’t no dummies, it’s really understood.
    Deep down, you know they’re no good !

    ACTION:

    They’re no good ?

    ALL:

    They’re no good, they’re no good
    They are no damn good !
    They never do anywhere near what they should !
    The tinctures you sell, don’t ever make us well!
    Deep down, you know they’re no good !

    ACTION:

    No Good !

    Reply
  8. I think anti-GMO activists need to make up their minds. Either the evil corporations only care about profits, or they are poisoning us. It can’t be both, because even an evil corporation knows that if you kill all your customers you won’t make any money…

    Reply
    • Hey pal,no problemo. New clueless customers are being born every day that have no idea that GMOs are toxic non-food…

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  9. I love stories like this…really lets people fly their freak flags. Logical fallacies abound.

    Reply
    • if these cures don’t work, what would be the point of me saying these things? it amazing to me, you put your own theories ahead of other people experiences…..I could understand that if I was claiming to see aliens, but then again, you might believe that quicker than the vitamin cures……

      Reply
    • did you know animal that can make vitamin C, make about 3 to 15 grams per day. the average is 5.4 grams for an animal the size of a human. and you don’t think we need this….lol

      Reply
    • Tell us what you know about lobotomies…I am sure you have first hand experience.
      RC131 do you get paid by the word, post or level of vitriol? Make sure you pay all you taxes. Seriously though I hope you are paid in kind and get free vaccines, GMO, and what ever other commodity you shill for….maybe you get IBM’s AI implants…careful with that they can program you to speak like an idiot…don’t want that now…do you?

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  10. If Vaccines are so bad because they’re made by Big Pharma, shouldn’t the anti-vaccers also give up all things made by pharmaceutical companies. Tylenol, pain killers, analgesics, anti-histamines, steroids (like asthma sufferers), blood thinners, Coagulents, sulfa drugs, vitamin pills, IV drips. I wish they were consistent

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  11. I think people who don’t believe in modern medicine or science should not be allowed the advantages of such. I know it is a bit harsh but I am feeling a tad angry after reading some of the nonsense. I tried to find one true scientific article on the web with scientific proof that GMOs are dangerous and couldn’t find one. Does someone have link to a site that publishes the negative findings?

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  12. I think we need to elect Michael Taylor of Monsanto to a higher post than simply FDA’s GMO Food Safety Czar …Hell lets take him and cohort all the way to the top of the food chain….lets make him the next President of the United States and he can place his minions at every level of oversight and legislation to move GMO and grand delusions the big RoundUP to the top of the League of Nations. That would shut up those freakin’ nay sayers of frankenfood.

    Isn’t that what FEMA is building all those shacks and ‘showers’ for…the nay sayers of progress…those ludicrous luddites?

    ROUND’em UP and ZYKLON’em…’cuzz they aint got the brains God gave’m if they don’t believe in FRANKENPHOOD….yup jist turn’em inna SOYLENT GREEN!! to feed da’world…’cause GMO is too slow…not fast acting enough for euthanasia….nor pain free.

    GO MONSANTO GO!… lets feed the world.

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