Mike Adams, who goes by the nom de guerre Health Ranger, can politely be described as an antiscience propagandist. If there's no evidence for it, he'll believe it: naturopathy, antivax, alt-med fluffery, you name it. He runs the website Natural News, which has an extremely high density of nonsense per electron. Normally I wouldn't care about someone like him, but he has a substantial following, and he also promotes a lot of alt-med material that is clearly anti-science and therefore potentially dangerous; even if the stuff he sells doesn't directly make you sick, people who buy into that mindset may avoid scientifically-based (that is, real) medicine, which can make them sicker or even be fatal. And he recently decided to widen his circle of silliness, this time promoting astrology. Yes, astrology, one of the most thoroughly debunked beliefs of all time. And it's not just that he promotes astrology, it's ...
Mike Adams fails again: astrology edition
Discover how Mike Adams, an antiscience propagandist, misrepresents science to promote astrology and dangerous alt-med practices.
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