Let’s travel back in time fifteen years....
...Unfortunately, even so, apparently Joe Mercola was there. I learned this yesterday when i saw that that foremost promoter of quackery on the Internet is celebrating his fifteenth anniversary. In other words, the original wretched hive of scum and quackery, Mercola.com, sprang into existence eight years before the website that I usually refer to as a wretched hive of scum and quackery, The Huffington Post, was foisted upon a less than enthusiastic world. HuffPo, of course, immediately delved into antivaccine quackery, quantum quackery by Deepak Chopra, and eventually so many different forms of quackery that it’s really hard to keep track. However, as HuffPo became the new quack on the block, Mercola.com had been cranking out the quackery for years before. Worse, as Bryan Smith reported earlier this year, Mercola.com gets traffic on par with that of the National Institutes of Health website. As I put it, Joe Mercola is proof positive that quackery sells...
Continues @ Joe Mercola: 15 years of promoting quackery – Respectful Insolence:
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