#PensNotPricks: Natural News


Written By: Roger Nichols of TFD


 #PensNotPricks: Natural News

Editor's Note: The #PensNotPricks is The Factual Dragnet's Call to Action to keep the important element in our freedom, the Press, to stay grounded and stick to the code of honesty & transparency rather than ego's & pocketbooks. A lot of people we as a whole have come into contact with refuse to let us as journalist, citizen or professional, fall into the corrupt groups such as banks. 

We are indeed taking a hell of a beating right now. We must protect this institution. We are suppose to bring the facts not make them up. We are to inform the public of our findings, not bury them and slap the public in the face. So, this is to tell, not ask, tell these fake journalist and disinformation agents to get the fuck out or play ball. We are watching. We are many. ~X~

If there is a Wonderland filled with health scares, monsters, and miraculous concoctions, Mike Adams is building it. And its looking-glass is the Internet.

Much has been written recently about online “echo chambers”: the idea that we are catered to on the Internet with sites and recommendations that reinforce our preexisting beliefs. 

If you watch a lot of science videos on YouTube, follow many scientists on Twitter, and regularly search for scientific questions on Google, your online experience will shift away from neutrality, as search results, post sorting, and recommendations will be tailored to your pro-science stance. This is an echo chamber because, in due time, you only hear your beliefs repeated back at you and stop seeing what’s happening on the other side.

Echo chambers for the pseudoscience crowd exist as well, though Mike Adams’ online bubble is so vast and self-sufficient, it warrants the term “ecosystem”.

Mike Adams, also known as The Health Ranger, is a fierce advocate of alternative medicine. He is anti-vaccination, anti-GMO, anti-medicine.
You may know him as the owner of NaturalNews.com. 

According to the website, its 20 writers and researchers produce up to 15 articles a day. If this massive undertaking already sounds impressive, you may want to know that NaturalNews.com is only the prominent tip of a very large iceberg.

A bit of online sleuthing revealed that Mike Adams owns over 50 websites. The topics they cover go beyond alternative medicine and help shape an entire worldview: fear of medicine and science.


 

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