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[[image:joseph_mercola.jpg|right|300px|Joseph Mercola]]

[[image:joseph_mercola.jpg|right|300px|Joseph Mercola]]

Joseph Mercola (born July 8, 1954) is an US-American [[Osteopathy|osteopathic]] physician, businessman, author and founder of the [[alternative medicine]]-website mercola.com, which markets and sells his health-related products. He is also an [[Anti-vaccinationist]], [[HIV/AIDS denialism|HIV/Aids-denialist]], outspoken critic of the FDA and critic of mainstream medicine, especially the use of most prescription drugs. His business practices are regarded as dubious by various sources and he has been warned by the FDA several times for violating the law by advertising products using false and exaggerated claims. He is criticized his snake-oil salesmen methods, promising costly things for ''free'' and scaring visitors with his articles into buying stuff.<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/may2006/sb20060523_063274.htm Old-Time Sales Tricks on the Net], Business Week, May 23 2006</ref>

'''Joseph Mercola''' (born July 8, 1954) is an US-American [[Osteopathy|osteopathic]] physician, businessman, author and founder of the [[alternative medicine]]-website mercola.com, which markets and sells his health-related products. He is also an [[Anti-vaccinationist]], [[HIV/AIDS denialism|HIV/Aids-denialist]], outspoken critic of the FDA and critic of mainstream medicine, especially the use of most prescription drugs. His business practices are regarded as dubious by various sources and he has been warned by the FDA several times for violating the law by advertising products using false and exaggerated claims. He is criticized his snake-oil salesmen methods, promising costly things for ''free'' and scaring visitors with his articles into buying remedies.<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/may2006/sb20060523_063274.htm Old-Time Sales Tricks on the Net], Business Week, May 23 2006</ref>

==Short biography==

==Short biography==

He claims in his book "The Great Bird Flu Hoax" that the warnings about H1N1 flu were just false alarms and that the swine flu is quite harmless. He says that can avoid it by some simple measurements, like optimizing vitamin D levels, avoiding sugar and processed food, take krill oil, use all-natural antibiotics like olive leaf extract and oil of oregano.<ref>[http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/16/Major-Expose-on-Swine-Flu-by-60-Minutes.aspx Major Expose on Swine Flu by 60 Minutes ], mercola.com, July 16 2009</ref> All things Mercola sells through his website. And swine flu is not harmless, the World Health Organization has confirmed more than 18,000 deaths by H1N1 till August 2010.<ref>[http://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_08_06/en/index.html Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 112]</ref>

He claims in his book "The Great Bird Flu Hoax" that the warnings about H1N1 flu were just false alarms and that the swine flu is quite harmless. He says that can avoid it by some simple measurements, like optimizing vitamin D levels, avoiding sugar and processed food, take krill oil, use all-natural antibiotics like olive leaf extract and oil of oregano.<ref>[http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/16/Major-Expose-on-Swine-Flu-by-60-Minutes.aspx Major Expose on Swine Flu by 60 Minutes ], mercola.com, July 16 2009</ref> All things Mercola sells through his website. And swine flu is not harmless, the World Health Organization has confirmed more than 18,000 deaths by H1N1 till August 2010.<ref>[http://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_08_06/en/index.html Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 112]</ref>

Mercola also claims that medicine kills more people than it saves in a article series called ''Death by Medicine''.<ref>[http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/11/26/death-by-medicine-part-one.aspx Death by Medicine, Part I], mercola.com, November 26 2003</ref><ref>[http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/04/death-by-medicine-an-update.aspx Nearly 250,000 Deaths From ONE Common Mistake: Here's How to Protect Yourself], mercola.com, February 04 2011</ref> Among the authors of the ''Death by Medicine'' series are dubious writers like [[Gary Null]] (dubious credentials, dubious products) and [[Carolyn Dean]] (defrocked 1995 because of "disgraceful, dishonourable and unprofessional conduct").<ref>[http://www.reocities.com/healthbase/death_by_medicine.html The Quack-Files: Death by Medicine], by Harriet Hall, MD</ref> The articles are full of false science, wrong claims and fallacies.<ref>[http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/death-by-medicine/ Science-Based Medicine on "Death by Medicine"]</ref>

Mercola also claims that medicine kills more people than it saves in a article series called ''Death by Medicine''.<ref>[http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/11/26/death-by-medicine-part-one.aspx Death by Medicine, Part I], mercola.com, November 26 2003</ref><ref>[http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/04/death-by-medicine-an-update.aspx Nearly 250,000 Deaths From ONE Common Mistake: Here's How to Protect Yourself], mercola.com, February 04 2011</ref> Among the authors of the ''Death by Medicine'' series are dubious writers like [[Gary Null]] (dubious credentials, dubious products) and [[Carolyn Dean]] (defrocked 1995 because of "disgraceful, dishonourable and unprofessional conduct").<ref>[http://www.casewatch.org/foreign/dean/dean.shtml Disciplinary Action against Carolyn Dean, M.D.], Casewatch</ref><ref>[http://www.reocities.com/healthbase/death_by_medicine.html The Quack-Files: Death by Medicine], by Harriet Hall, MD</ref> The articles are full of false science, wrong claims and fallacies.<ref>[http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/death-by-medicine/ Science-Based Medicine on "Death by Medicine"]</ref>

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