The worst anti-science websites on the web

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I keep seeing these sites used as "references."

Brian Dunning has updated his list of Top-10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites, five of which provide low-quality health information and advice:

Natural News (promoted conspiracy theories that medical industry secretly wants to keep everyone sick, and conspires with the food industry to make people unhealthy, all driven by a massive plot of greed to sell poisonous medicines)
Mercola.com (aggressive promotion of "quack medical products&quot
DoctorOz.com (his web site is little more than "clickbait luring people . . . who might be looking for actual health advice to click on ads for Dr. Oz's "trusted sponsorship partners.&quot
Foodbabe.com (her advice is "a crap shoot of common knowledge, fearmongering, gross scientific illiteracy, misinformation, and ideological nonsense.&quot
Chopra.com ("claiming ayurvedic medical benefits from what amounts to little more than spiritualist word-salad mumbo jumbo, " including "'detoxification' . . . an implausible spiritual solution to a nonexistent physical problem."

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4495

[yellowcanine]

1. How about the Alex Jones Website? A fact free zone if there ever was one.

http://www.infowars.com/

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2. Jones' site is listed in the article, it's #4.

[yellowcanine]

3. So it is. I didn't actually look at the list. Thanks.

Glad to see someone is going after the conspiracy mongers as well as the food faddists and antivaxxers.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Good list...

but Rense and Whale.to should be included!

[progressoid]

5. Apparently Mercola has a pet version too.

My wife was looking for something for our cats and ran across it. When I pointed out that Mercola was a quack, she moved on.