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       Founder   
      
   Michael Allen "Mike" Adams (born 1967 in Lawrence, Kansas    
   )^[28]    
    is the founder   
   and owner of Natural News; the domain name was registered in 2005 and    
   began publishing articles in 2008.^[5]    
       
   According to Adams' own website, he became interested in alternative    
   nutrition when he developed type II diabetes    
    at the age of    
   30 and one of his websites asserts "he cured himself of diabetes in a    
   matter of months and transformed himself into the picture of perfect    
   health in mind, body and spirit" himself using natural remedies.    
   However, /The Daily Beast    
   / found that his    
   recommendation for Amazon Herb Company products in at least eight    
   articles, including a supposed "third-party review...from a truly    
   independent perspective" turn out to be misleading; he has a financial    
   interest in the company, according to non-profit business records in    
   Arizona.^[5]    
       
   ^[29]    
    He    
   is a raw foods enthusiast and holistic nutritionist    
   . He claims to eat no    
   processed foods, dairy, sugar, meat from mammals or food products    
   containing additives such as monosodium glutamate    
    (MSG). He also says   
   he avoids use of prescription drugs and visits to Western medical    
   doctors.^[29]    
      
      
   Adams has endorsed conspiracy theories surrounding the Deepwater Horizon   
   oil spill    
   ,^[30]    
    and those    
   involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 370    
   .^[31]    
    He has    
   endorsed /Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business/, a movie about    
   Stanislaw Burzynski    
   .^[32]    
    Steven Novella   
    characterizes Adams as "a   
   dangerous conspiracy-mongering crank".^[22]    
    Adams    
   has also endorsed the books of conspiracy theorist Jim Marrs    
   .^[33]    
      
      
   Adams has made music videos expressing similar viewpoints as the    
   articles posted on his website, such as opposition to the swine flu    
   vaccine .^[34]    
      
      
   In 2012, after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting    
       
   occurred, Adams called for "medication control" instead of gun control    
   .^[35]    
      
      
      
       Criticism and controversies   
      
   Writing in the journal /Vaccine    
   /, Anna Kata    
   identified Natural News as one of numerous websites spreading    
   "irresponsible health information".^[36]    
       
   According to John Banks, Adams uses "pseudoscience to sell his lies" and   
   is "seen as generally a quack and a shill by science bloggers."^[9]    
    One such    
   blogger, David Gorski  of    
   ScienceBlogs , called    
   Natural News "one of the most wretched hives of scum and quackery on the   
   Internet," and the most "blatant purveyor of the worst kind of quackery    
    and paranoid anti-physician and   
   anti-medicine conspiracy theories anywhere on the Internet",^[37]    
    and a    
   one-stop-shop for "virtually every quackery known to humankind, all    
   slathered with a heaping, helping of unrelenting hostility to    
   science-based medicine and science in general."^[7]    
       
   Peter Bowditch of the website Ratbags commented about the site.^[38]    
    Steven Novella   
    of NeuroLogica Blog    
   called NaturalNews "a crank alt med site that promotes every sort of    
   medical nonsense imaginable." Novella continued: "If it is unscientific,   
   antiscientific, conspiracy-mongering, or downright silly, Mike Adams    
   appears to be all for it—whatever sells the "natural" products he hawks    
   on his site."^[11]    
      
      
   Individuals who commented about Adams' website include astronomer and    
   blogger Phil Plait ,^[39]    
    PZ Myers    
   ,^[40]    
    and Mark    
   Hoofnagle.^[41]    
    In 2011 and    
   2015 Brian Dunning    
    listed    
   NaturalNews.com as #1 on his "Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites"    
   lists.^[42]     
   Adams is listed as a "promoter of questionable methods" by Quackwatch    
   .^[43]    
    Robert T.    
   Carroll  at The    
   Skeptic's Dictionary    
    said,    
   "Natural News is not a very good source for information. If you don't    
   trust me on this, go to Respectful Insolence or any of the other    
   bloggers on ScienceBlogs and do a search for "Natural News" or "Mike    
   Adams" (who is Natural News). Hundreds of entries will be found and not    
   one of them will have a good word to say about Mike Adams as a    
   source."^[44]    
      
   According to /The Atlantic    
   /, Natural News is one of    
   the most prominent anti-vaccination websites on Facebook.^[4]    
    An article    
   in the journal /Vaccine/ said the site "tend(s) to not only spread    
   irresponsible health information in general (e.g. discouraging    
   chemotherapy  or radiation    
   for cancer  treatment,    
   antiretrovirals  for HIV    
   , and insulin    
    for diabetes), but also have    
   large sections with dubious information on vaccines."^[36]    
      
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