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class="mw-redirect" title="Robert T. Carroll">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]
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
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