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   > In May 2020, Facebook  banned   
   > Natural News content from its platform after discovering that the site   
   > was boosting its popularity using content farms   
   >  in North Macedonia   
   >  and the Philippines   
   > , a form of spamming   
   > .^[26]   
   >    
   > Natural News bypassed the ban by republishing its content on a large   
   > number of topic-specific domain names   
   > , including trump.news,   
   > extinction.news, mind.control.news, and veggie.news.^[26]   
   >    
   > ^[27]   
   >    
   > The Institute for Strategic Dialogue   
   >  found   
   > 496 domain names associated with Natural News as of June 2020.^[27]   
   >    
   > ^[1]    
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   >   
   >     Contents   
   >   
   >   * 1 Founder    
   >   * 2 Criticism and controversies   
   >        
   >   * 3 Notable claims   
   >        
   >   * 4 References    
   >   * 5 External links   
   >        
   >   
   >   
   >     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   
      
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