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Archae

(46,359 posts) Mon Dec 7, 2015, 01:33 AM Dec 2015

The worst anti-science sites on the web...

I keep seeing these sites used as "references."

Brian Dunning has updated his list of Top-10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites, five of which provide low-quality health information and advice:

Natural News (promoted conspiracy theories that medical industry secretly wants to keep everyone sick, and conspires with the food industry to make people unhealthy, all driven by a massive plot of greed to sell poisonous medicines)
Mercola.com (aggressive promotion of "quack medical products&quot
DoctorOz.com (his web site is little more than "clickbait luring people . . . who might be looking for actual health advice to click on ads for Dr. Oz's "trusted sponsorship partners.&quot
Foodbabe.com (her advice is "a crap shoot of common knowledge, fearmongering, gross scientific illiteracy, misinformation, and ideological nonsense.&quot
Chopra.com ("claiming ayurvedic medical benefits from what amounts to little more than spiritualist word-salad mumbo jumbo, " including "'detoxification' . . . an implausible spiritual solution to a nonexistent physical problem."

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4495

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The worst anti-science sites on the web... (Original Post) Archae Dec 2015 OP

Thanks for this list Warpy Dec 2015 #1

That's one way to look at it jmowreader Dec 2015 #2

Warpy

(111,383 posts)

1. Thanks for this list

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Dec 7, 2015, 02:01 AM

Dec 2015

These sites belong with political disinformation sites like Prison Planet, unquotable at a knowledgeable site like DU.

I would have put Mercola as the worst, though, since he not only peddles loads of utter bollocks, he peddles his "cures" for them, too.

jmowreader

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2. That's one way to look at it

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 7, 2015, 04:22 AM

Dec 2015

I would have declared a tie between Mercola and Natural News...Mike Adams is more full of shit than Mercola is, but Mercola's brand of woo costs more than Adams'.

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