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   After Patrick Swayze  died   
   in 2009, Adams posted an article in which he remarked that Swayze, in    
   dying, "joins many other celebrities who have been recently killed by    
   pharmaceuticals or chemotherapy." Commentators of Adams' article on    
   Patrick Swayze included bloggers such as David Gorski^[45]    
    and Phil    
   Plait, the latter of whom called Adams' commentary "obnoxious and    
   loathsome."^[46]    
    When Angelina    
   Jolie  underwent a double    
   mastectomy in May 2013 because she had a mutation in the BRCA1    
    gene, Adams stated that "Countless   
   millions of women carry the BRCA1 gene and never express breast cancer    
   because they lead healthy, anti-cancer lifestyles based on smart    
   nutrition, exercise, sensible sunlight exposure and avoidance of    
   cancer-causing chemicals." Gorski called the article "vile" and noted    
   that Adams had written similarly themed articles about the death of    
   Michael Jackson , Tony    
   Snow , and Tim Russert    
   .^[47]    
      
      
   In February 2014, Brian Palmer, writing in the /Daily Herald    
   / of   
   Arlington Heights, Illinois, criticized the site's promotion of    
   alternative medicine treatments, such as bathing in Himalayan salt    
    and eating Hijiki    
    seaweed, and referred to the    
   claims Natural News made about their efficacy as "preposterous."^[48]    
    In August    
   2014, Nathanael Johnson, writing for Grist    
   , dismissed Natural    
   News as "simply not credible" and as "nothing but a conspiracy-theory    
   site."^[49]    
      
   On August 11, 2014, /Natural News/ published a blog post promoting a    
   homeopathic  treatment for    
   Ebola , which was met with harsh    
   criticism from several commentators, and was taken down later that    
   day.^[50]  In a   
   statement on the article, NaturalNews said that the blogger who posted    
   the article, Ken Oftedal, was "under review" and that they did not    
   condone anyone interacting with Ebola.^[51]    
    However, as of   
   August 20, 2014, the site was still featuring an article written by    
   Adams promoting the use of herbal medicines to treat Ebola.^[52]    
    In an article    
   about "fake Ebola cures", Adams was criticized for arguing that herbs    
   could prove effective as an Ebola treatment.^[/citation needed    
   /]   
      
   On December 8, 2016, Michael V. LeVine, writing in /Business Insider    
   /, criticized the site    
   as part of a scientific fake news    
    epidemic: "Snake-oil salesmen    
   have pushed false cures since the dawn of medicine, and now websites    
   like /Natural News/ flood social media with dangerous    
   anti-pharmaceutical, anti-vaccination and anti-GMO pseudoscience that    
   puts millions at risk of contracting preventable illnesses."^[17]    
      
      
   On February 22, 2017, Google     
   delisted about 140,000 pages on Natural News, removing it from search    
   results.^[53]    
       
   It was returned soon after.^[54]    
    The following    
   year, on March 3, 2018, YouTube     
   removed Natural News' video channel for terms of service violations,    
   effectively removing its library of videos from the site.^[55]    
       
   The channel was subsequently reinstated and the videos returned. In June   
   2019, Facebook  removed Natural    
   News from its website for violating its policies against spam. Adams    
   wrote on /InfoWars / that his    
   site was "permanently banned" from Facebook, and on /The Gateway Pundit    
   / that the ban was    
   part of a conspiracy against his website.^[56]    
      
      
   A 2020 study by researchers from Northeastern    
   , Harvard    
   , Northwestern    
    and Rutgers    
    universities found    
   that Natural News was among the top 5 most shared fake news domains    
    in tweets related to    
   COVID-19 , the others being /The   
   Gateway Pundit/, /InfoWars/, /WorldNetDaily    
   / and Judicial Watch    
   .^[12]    
      
      
      
       Notable claims   
      
   In 2011, Adams posted a report on Natural News which stated that many    
   blueberry  food products did    
   not contain real blueberries.^[57]    
    ^[58]    
      
      
   In 2013, Adams posted an article describing what he saw when he examined   
   Chicken McNuggets  under   
   a microscope. He said in the article that the patterns he saw included    
   "dark black hair-like structures" and a round algae    
   -like object.^[59]    
    ^[60]    
      
      
   In July 2014, Adams compared media outlets that wrote positively about    
   GMOs with Nazi Germany's    
    propagandists, calling    
   them, "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 continued with a statement that   
   he set in boldface : "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."^[61]    
    ^[62]    
    A day after    
   the post a website called "Monsanto Collaborator" appeared online which    
      
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