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Natural News is a Facebook hit: Never click on its stories about cancer, vaccines, conspiracies or GMOs.

Thursday, February 20, 2014 20:27
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Brian Palmer at Slate

Have you heard that eating whole lemons prevents cancer? Or that bathing in Himalayan salt rids the body of harmful toxins? That eating hijiki seaweed can delay hair graying? If you have a few Facebook friends, you’ve probably encountered some of these claims. The website Natural News —which seems like a parody but is unfortunately quite serious—published these preposterous stories, and many others just as silly, last week alone.

Hokum like this is best ignored, but hundreds of thousands of Americans fail to do so.Natural News has achieved astonishing traction on social media, garnering Facebook shares in the high five and low six figures. These numbers should trouble you—Natural News has an uncanny ability to move unsophisticated readers from harmless dietary balderdash to medical quackery to anti-government zealotry….

More @ Natural News is a Facebook hit: Never click on its stories about cancer, vaccines, conspiracies.

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Natural News also give advice about GMOs. It's as good as their line on Himalayan salt. The spiel is directed at the same audience demographic. They also cover “toxic fluoride” in water. It seems to be a successful business model.



Source: http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/2014/02/natural-news-is-facebook-hit-never.html

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  • Are you serious or just stupid. you should also listen to Dr Gruppe, chem eng. phd med, talk about the salt, saying ” a great supply of natural minerals” among others and you scoff at “toxic Fluoride”, I guess the Nazi’s started its use on the Jews because they cared about their teeth before they killed them. I gather his claims might bother you if you are against people taking personal health into their own hands. Fnnn troll, go back to the Times or whatever Obama sponsored employer pays you to drivel.

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