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Alleged Medical Expert Mike Adams Attacks Respected Cancer Doctor
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlipson/2016/05/05/alleged-medical-expert-mike-adams-attacks-respected-cancer-doctor/#999095d6a3ac"When it comes to explaining medical science and exposing dangerous medical scams and practices, the Science-Based Medicine blog is tops (full disclosure–I was one of the early bloggers at the site and I’m personally a fan). The team of bloggers are well-recognized doctors, researchers and communicators, many from top institutions. Dr. David Gorski, the managing editor, is a highly respected breast cancer surgeon and researcher at Karmanos Cancer Center, a nationally recognized NIH Comprehensive Cancer Center. Steve Novella, the founder of the blog, is an Yale neurologist, well-known for helping educate the public and other doctors about science and medicine.
Naturally, this puts these folks in the crosshairs from time to time. I’m not nearly as prolific as either of them, and I receive a respectable volume of hate mail. I’ve had critics try to pad online doctor rating sites with negative reviews. But I’m busy, I’m well-respected, and I’m good at what I do. And, importantly, I’m in private practice, which gives me a great deal of freedom to say what I want.
While I’ve had some pretty unpleasant run-ins with some pretty crazy people, nothing compares to what Dr. David Gorski appears to be going through. One of Gorski’s frequent targets of criticism is a guy named Mike Adams who fancies himself some sort of “Health Ranger.” I don’t know what that means, exactly, but his website Natural News, which calls itself “the world’s top news source on natural health,” is a cesspit of conspiracy theories and very bad health advice. Beyond the fact that it promotes unproven and often dangerous medical practices, Adams’s tone is so paranoid and abrasive, he makes Ted Cruz seem like a teddy bear.
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If you read carefully and follow the links, you see that Dr. Gorski is not the subject of any investigation but the one in Mike Adams’s own head. Adams’s writes that he himself has pestered the FBI to look into Gorski for…”reasons”? Making it seem as if a well-respected surgeon is the subject of a federal investigation is a dangerous road to go down.
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Anyone who uses Mike Adams or his web page, Natural News, as a source should be helped to understand the reality that this person is not ok.
Thank you.
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They don't like my adblocker. 
And Novella has done so fucking much for science education it is amazing that he has anymore life to spare. Do people realize that the podcast he hosts and produces Skeptics Guide to the Universe has not missed a weekly download for over a decade?
And yes, Science Based Medicine is one of the geekiest and honest medicine Blogs on the planet Earth. Love it, too. (Not enough Marc Crislip, though. 
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NaturalNews.com (formerly Newstarget, which is now a separate site) is website run by Mike Adams (self-labeled "The Health Ranger" which promotes alternative medicine and related conspiracy theories and attacks on science.[2] Even other quacks think it's a quack site.[3]
The site particularly specializes in vaccine denialism and woo,[4] AIDS/HIV denialism,[5] quack cancer treatments,[6] and conspiracy theories about "Big Pharma"[7] and modern medicine in toto.
Furthermore, Adams supports quantum woo, specifically quantum healing[8] and quantum consciousness.[9] NaturalNews advances a hard green position, even though the site also promotes global warming denialism.[10] To top it off, Adams promotes conspiracy theories about gun control.[11]
If you cite NaturalNews on any matter whatsoever, you are almost certainly wrong.
which promotes alternative medicine and related conspiracy theories and attacks on science.[2] Even other quacks think it's a quack site.[3]
The site particularly specializes in vaccine denialism and woo,[4] AIDS/HIV denialism,[5] quack cancer treatments,[6] and conspiracy theories about "Big Pharma"[7] and modern medicine in toto.
Furthermore, Adams supports quantum woo, specifically quantum healing[8] and quantum consciousness.[9] NaturalNews advances a hard green position, even though the site also promotes global warming denialism.[10] To top it off, Adams promotes conspiracy theories about gun control.[11]
If you cite NaturalNews on any matter whatsoever, you are almost certainly wrong.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/NaturalNews
