

Steven Novella characterizes Adams as "a dangerous conspiracy-mongering crank".
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He has endorsed Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business, a movie about Stanislaw Burzynski. Īdams has endorsed conspiracy theories surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and those involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. He also says he avoids use of prescription drugs and visits to Western medical doctors.

He claims to eat no processed foods, dairy, sugar, meat from mammals or food products containing additives such as monosodium glutamate (MSG). He is a raw foods enthusiast and holistic nutritionist. However, The Daily Beast found that his recommendation for Amazon Herb Company products in at least eight articles, including a supposed "third-party om 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. 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. Michael Allen "Mike" Adams (born 1967 in Lawrence, Kansas) is the founder and owner of Natural News the domain name was registered in 2005 and began publishing articles in 2008. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 496 domain names associated with Natural News as of June 2020. Natural News bypassed the ban by republishing its content on a large number of topic-specific domain names, including trump.news, extinction.news,, and veggie.news.

In May 2020, Facebook banned Natural News content from its platform after discovering that the site was boosting its popularity using content farms in North Macedonia and the Philippines, a form of spamming. Īs of 2014, Natural News had approximately 7 million unique visitors per month. It has also spread conspiracy theories about the Zika virus allegedly being spread by genetically modified mosquitoes and purported adverse effects of genetically modified crops, as well as the farming practices associated with and foods derived from them. These conspiracy theories include chemophobic claims about the purported dangers of " chemtrails", fluoridated drinking water, anti-perspirants, laundry detergent, monosodium glutamate, aspartame, and vaccines.

The website sells various dietary supplements, promotes alternative medicine and climate change denial, makes tendentious nutrition and health claims, disseminates fake news, and espouses various conspiracy theories and pro-Donald Trump propaganda. Adams has described vaccines as "medical child abuse". He has been accused of using "pseudoscience to sell his lies". The site's founder, Michael Allen "Mike" 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. The website began publishing articles in 2008 and is based in the United States. Natural News (formerly NewsTarget, which is now a separate sister site) is a far-right, anti-vaccination conspiracy theory and fake news website known for promoting alternative medicine, pseudoscience, disinformation, and far-right extremism.
