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Natural News
Natural News logo. around June 2015, depicting new slogan.png
Web address www.naturalnews.com
Commercial? Nutraceuticals
Type of site
 Alternative media blog
Available in English
Owner Mike Adams
Created by Mike Adams
Alexa rank
 Decrease 14,489[1]

Natural News (formerly NewsTarget, which is now a separate sister site) is an alternative media website. The website sells various dietary supplements, promotes alternative medicine and questions climate change, and supports Donald Trump. Including claims about the purported dangers of "chemtrails", fluoridated drinking water, anti-perspirants, laundry detergent, monosodium glutamate, aspartame, and vaccines. It has also reported theories about the Zika virus allegedly being spread by genetically modified mosquitoes and adverse effects of genetically modified crops, as well as the farming practices associated with and foods derived from them.

The site's founder, Michael Allen Adams, gained attention after posting a blog entry implying a call for violence against proponents of GMO foods, and then allegedly creating another website with a list of names of alleged supporters. Adams has described vaccines as "medical child abuse".

Natural News has approximately 7 million unique visitors per month.[2] The site has been delisted and blocked from Google Search and several other web search engines, and is widely described by its political opponents, such as the "skeptical movement", as being far right and promoting conspiracy theories, fake news, pseudoscience, and white supremacy, amongst other content they disagree with.[3] Other critics of NaturalNews have argued that it is part of the controlled opposition.[4]

Founder

Michael Allen "Mike" Adams (born 1967 in Lawrence, Kansas)[5] is the founder and owner of Natural News; the domain name was registered in 2005 and began publishing articles in 2008.[6] 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 said 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.[6][7] 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.[7]

Adams has endorsed alternative theories surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill,[8] and those involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.[9] He has endorsed Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business, a movie about Stanislaw Burzynski.[10] Steven Novella characterizes Adams as "a dangerous conspiracy-mongering crank".[11] Adams has also endorsed the books of alternative theorist Jim Marrs.[12]

Adams has made music videos expressing similar viewpoints as the articles posted on his website, such as opposition to the swine flu vaccine.[13]

Notable claims

In 2011, Adams posted a report on Natural News which stated that many blueberry food products did not contain real blueberries.[14][15]

In 2013, Adams posted an article describing what he saw when he examined Chicken McNuggets under a microscope. He said in the article that the patterns he saw included "dark black hair-like structures" and a round algae-like object.[16][17]

In July 2014 Adams compared media outlets that wrote positively about GMOs with Nazi Germany's propagandists, calling them, "Monsanto collaborators who have signed on to accelerate heinous crimes being committed against humanity under the false promise of 'feeding the world' with toxic GMOs." He continued with a statement that he set in boldface: "that it is the moral right—and even the obligation—of human beings everywhere to actively plan and carry out the killing of those engaged in heinous crimes against humanity."[18][19] A day after the post a website called "Monsanto Collaborator" appeared online which listed the names of scientists and journalists who allegedly collaborate with the bio industry; Adams denied creating the website claiming that Monsanto set up the website in order to frame him.[20]

In 2019, Natural News claimed that wind turbines contribute more to climate change than fossil fuels.[21]

Censorship and deplatforming

On February 22, 2017, Google delisted about 140,000 pages on Natural News, thus removing it from search results.[22] It was returned soon after.[23] 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.[24] 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" and on The Gateway Pundit that it was part of a conspiracy against his website.[25]

References

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  23. ↑ Schwartz, Barry. (February 28, 2017). "After rare Google confirmation of on-site penalty, Natural News is back in Google’s index", Search Engine Land. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
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