{"id":13134,"date":"2014-05-13T15:17:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=13134"},"modified":"2014-05-13T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T19:17:39","slug":"new-low-dr-oz-promoting-mike-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=13134","title":{"rendered":"A New Low for Dr. Oz: Promoting Mike Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
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<a href="https://forgive123.com/directions-to-headquarters/"></a> His website is a one-stop shop, a repository if you will, of virtually every quackery known to humankind, all slathered with a heaping, helping of unrelenting hostility to science-based medicine and science in general. True, Mike Adams is not as big as, say, Joe Mercola, whose website, as far as I can tell, appears to draw more traffic than NaturalNews.com, but what Adams lacks in fame he makes up for in sheer crazy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1322"></a> That is no exaggeration.\u00a0Mark Hoofnagle <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/denialism\/2012\/12\/14\/mike-adams-couldnt-go-6-hours-without-promoting-an-insane-conspiracy-theory-about-this-school-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">calls him<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/veneers/"></a> In recent months, Adams has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/043972_vitamin_C_cancer_treatment_intravenous_injections.html\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0that high-dose Vitamin C injections, which he conveniently sells, have been shown to \u201cannihilate cancer\u201d (doctors warn high doses of vitamin C can be dangerous); that measles and mumps are making a comeback\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/042864_measles_outbreak_mumps_vaccines_scientific_fraud.html\">because<\/a>\u00a0vaccines are \u201cdesigned to fail\u201d (he\u2019s an anti-vaccine campaigner); and that fluoridated water\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/044057_fluoridated_water_ADHD_mental_disorders.html\">causes<\/a>\u00a0mental disorders. He is also an AIDS denialist, a 9\/11 truther, a Barack Obama citizenship \u2018birther\u2019 and a believer in \u2018dangerous\u2019 chemtrails.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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