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But does Wikipedia live up to this this matter. I looked up Dr. Mercola -
expectation? According to co-founder the founder of the world’s most visited
of Wikipedia Larry Sanger, the US natural health web site, Mercola.com
intelligence agencies “pay off the most Here is what Wikipedia says about him:
influential people to push their agendas,
which they’re already mostly in line “Joseph Michael Mercola is an American
with, or they just develop their own alternative medicine proponent,
talent within the community, learn the osteopathic physician, and Internet
Wikipedia game, and then push what business personality. He markets largely
they want to say with their own people.” unproven dietary supplements and
For that reason, along with others medical devices. On his website, Mercola
Sanger calls Wikipedia “the most biased and colleagues advocate unproven
encyclopedia” in history. and pseudoscientific alternative health
notions including homeopathy and
Sanger described that US intelligence opposition to vaccination… Dr. Mercola
manipulation of the immensely large promotes scientifically discredited views
platform and repository of information about medicine and disease.’
had been going on for more than a
decade (Wikipedia was founded and Not only calling Dr. Mercola “the
appeared online in 2001). disinformation superspreader” by New
York Times,
Most inaccuracies on Wikipedia are related
to science and medicine. According to in July 2023, JP Morgan Chase Bank
the BBC article published in May 2014, suddenly informed him that they were
“Wikipedia contains errors in nine out closing all of his business accounts, both
of 10 of its health entries, and should be banking and investment accounts, along
treated with caution, a study has said.” with the personal accounts of his CEO,
his CFO and their respective spouses and
Examining entries relevant to our children.” No reason for the decision was
community of holistic healers and given, other than there was “unexpected
metaphysical practitioners shed light on activity” on an unspecified account.
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