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   > 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]   
   >    
   >   
   > 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   
      
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