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Tag Archives: mercola
5.17.2013
MercolaWatch:Dangerous reasoning about the chickenpox vaccine
In an April article, “Despite Doctor’s Order, School Bans Girl for Not Getting Chickenpox Vaccine”, Mercola is at it again with strange logic which seems to directly contradict the available facts. It seems that like many who are anti-vaccine, the / read more…
5.3.2013
MercolaWatch:Supposed “report” comparing GMO and non-GMO corn
While it may appear that I attack every article that Joe Mercola writes, his “newsletter” averages two articles every day except for Sunday (about the same volume as the Skeptoid group blog, except everything is published under his own name). / read more…
Posted in Health / Pseudoscience
4.19.2013
MercolaWatch:On Environmental Factors for Autism — Part 2
This is the second of a two-part response to a recent mercola.com speculating on environmental causes for autism. This part briefly responds to his mention of vaccines, phthalates and gut flora.
Posted in Health / Pseudoscience / Science
Tagged in Autism / mercola / phthalates / vaccines
4.12.2013
MercolaWatch:On Environmental Factors for Autism — Part 1
In a recent article by Joe Mercola, he has a list of what he deems to be likely environmental factors for autism (spoiler: he mentions vaccines). Let’s take a look at some of them. NOTE: I have no intent to / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Pseudoscience
Tagged in Autism / emr / klinghardt / mercola / vaccines
3.15.2013
MercolaWatch:Aspartame and milk
I swear I try really hard to avoid talking about aspartame all the time but it seems to be a lost cause. For the past few weeks, my news feed has been filled with various articles claiming that the food / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Health / Urban Legends
3.1.2013
MercolaWatch:Poor research on Genetically Engineered foods
This month mercola.com published an article where he claims to dispel 10 myths about “mainstream nutrition”. In this article I will just address his “Lie #9″ regarding Genetically Engineered foods and whether he has cited sufficient evidence to demonstrate harm / read more…
1.26.2013
More Mercola Misinformation: Grounding In Reverse
Skeptics are well aware of a few of the more popular doctors selling woo on the web or on TV. One of the them, Dr. Mercola, is mentioned many over and over for his anti-vaccine stance and his pseudoscientific approach / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Nature / Pseudoscience
Tagged in earthing / electrons / grounding / health / mercola
1.18.2013
MercolaWatch: Misrepresentation of dental amalgams
Joe Mercola just published another of his articles which presents dental amalgams (silver fillings) as all bad and also calls out “dental review boards” for revoking licensure of dentists who remove amalgams. While ideally we would release no mercury into / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Health / Urban Legends
Tagged in dental amalgams / mercola / mercury
12.7.2012
MercolaWatch: Overreacting to chloramine in water
In late November, Joe Mercola posted an article discussing the addition of chloramine in drinking water and its potential effects. Chloramine is a compound sometimes added (going back as far as 1917) as a disinfectant in municipal water supplies during / read more…
Posted in Health
Tagged in cancer / chloramine / mercola / tap water
11.23.2012
MercolaWatch: Mis-information about the Gardasil HPV vaccine
Recently, Joe Mercola published another anti-Gardasil vaccine article, the bulk of which is based on a couple of studies (both by the same researchers) purporting to show that not only is Gardasil not safe, it’s not even effective. It appears / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Health / Pseudoscience
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