The worst anti-science websites 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"
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."
Foodbabe.com (her advice is "a crap shoot of common knowledge, fearmongering, gross scientific illiteracy, misinformation, and ideological nonsense."
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
yellowcanine
(36,336 posts)Archae
(46,798 posts)yellowcanine
(36,336 posts)Glad to see someone is going after the conspiracy mongers as well as the food faddists and antivaxxers.
LeftishBrit
(41,303 posts)but Rense and Whale.to should be included!
progressoid
(50,743 posts)My wife was looking for something for our cats and ran across it. When I pointed out that Mercola was a quack, she moved on.