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'''Mike Adams''' is a US Internetshop owner and author from Tucson, Arizona. He founded several companies and publishing houses with affiliated websites in the USA, where he takes a stand on various health related issues from an amateur and [[Pseudomedicine|pseudomedical]] point of view and advertises several [[Alternative medicine|alternative]]products and therapies.

'''Mike Adams''' is a US internetshop owner and author from Tucson, Arizona. He founded several companies and publishing houses with affiliated websites in the USA, on which he takes a stand on various health related issues from a lay person's and [[Pseudomedicine|pseudomedical]] point of view, and advertises several [[Alternative medicine|alternative]]products and therapies.

To spread his views, Adams runs the sites "Natural News", "The Consumer [[Wellness]] Center", "Better Life Goods", and the publishing house "Truth Publishing". Adams is the owner of "Arial Software LLC", a company selling Adams' software called "Email Marketing Director" which can be used as a "Mass Personalized Email Marketing Software" for the mass distribution of e-mail spam.

To spread his views, Adams runs the sites "Natural News", "The Consumer [[Wellness]] Center", "Better Life Goods", and the publishing house "Truth Publishing". Adams is the owner of "Arial Software LLC", a company selling Adams' software called "Email Marketing Director" which can be used as a "Mass Personalized Email Marketing Software" for the mass distribution of e-mail spam.

Adams is a flat opponent of modern medicine and opposes any medication and doctor visits. He is a raw food proponent and committed [[Anti-vaccinationist]] and calls himself ''the Health Ranger'' or ''holistic nutritionist''. He opposes food which contains sugar, was cooked or made to last, „red“ meat, sweeteners, [[glutamate]], homogenized milk, bread and "white" flour, washing powder of some brands, deodorants and shampoos as well as fluoride toothpaste. In his opinion, [[Scientology]] is treated unfair.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000534_scientology_self_defense_swords.html Crazed Swordsman Attacks Scientology Guard Who Fires Back in Self Defense], Mike Adams, Natural News November 24, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000645_John_Travolta_Scientology_Freedom_of_Religion.html Baseless Accusations against John Travolta Demonstrate Cruelty, Intolerance of Pill Pushers and Religion Bashers], Mike Adams, Natural News January 5, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> [[Cold Fusion]] and so called [[Free Energy|free energy]] ideas and devices like e.g. the [[Focardi-Rossi Energy-Catalyzer]] are presented on his website in an uncritical way.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/032455_cold_fusion_E-Cat.html E-Cat Cold fusion device independently validated producing 800% more energy than input], Neev M. Arnell, Natural News May 19, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/026116_energy_free_population.html Free Energy Technology Could Destroy the Natural World (But It Doesn't Have To)], Mike Adams, Natural News April 24,2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref>

Adams is a global opponent of modern medicine and opposes any medication and consultations of doctors. He is a raw food proponent and committed [[Anti-vaccinationist]] and calls himself ''the Health Ranger'' or ''holistic nutritionist''. He is an opponent of food which contains sugar, cooked or preserved food, „red“ meat, sweeteners [[glutamate]], homogenized milk, bread and "white" flour, detergents of brand manufacturers, deodorants and shampoos as well as fluoridated toothpaste. In his opinion, [[Scientology]] is treated unfair.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000534_scientology_self_defense_swords.html Crazed Swordsman Attacks Scientology Guard Who Fires Back in Self Defense], Mike Adams, Natural News November 24, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000645_John_Travolta_Scientology_Freedom_of_Religion.html Baseless Accusations against John Travolta Demonstrate Cruelty, Intolerance of Pill Pushers and Religion Bashers], Mike Adams, Natural News January 5, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> [[Cold Fusion]] and so called [[Free Energy|free energy]] ideas and devices like e.g. the [[Focardi-Rossi Energy-Catalyzer]] are presented on his website in an uncritical way.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/032455_cold_fusion_E-Cat.html E-Cat Cold fusion device independently validated producing 800% more energy than input], Neev M. Arnell, Natural News May 19, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/026116_energy_free_population.html Free Energy Technology Could Destroy the Natural World (But It Doesn't Have To)], Mike Adams, Natural News April 24,2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref>

Adams has uttered several absurd [[Conspiracy Theory|conspiracy theories]] on health topics without giving any evidence. He claims that the "pharmaceutical industry" has created HIV vaccines with the sole purpose to create as many "HIV positive people" as possible to which one could sell anti-retroviral drugs at a huge profit. Screening with mammography would also create cancer, which would have to be expensively treated and bring again profits. He refers to chemotherapy as quackery.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/026305_medicine_child_chemotherapy.html The Quackery of Chemotherapy, Gunpoint Medicine and the Disturbing Fate of 13-Year-Old Daniel Hauser], Mike Adams, Natural News May 20, 2009, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> He is also a hardcore [[Truther|9/11 truther]], [[birther]], and pretty much everything else-er.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/017337.html The War On Truth: 9/11, Disinformation And The Anatomy Of Terrorism], Book review on Natural News, retrieved 2011-05-26.</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/032217_Obama_birth_certificate.html Obama birth certificate is just as authentic as the money supply, the food supply and Obamacare], Mike Adams, Natural News April 28, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-26.</ref>

Adams has compiled several absurd [[Conspiracy Theory|conspiracy theories]] on health-related issues without providing any evidence. He claims that pharmaceutical industry has created HIV vaccines with the sole purpose of creating as many "HIV positive persons" as possible to which they can sell anti-retroviral drugs at a huge profit. Mammography screening, according to Adams, will also create cancer which then needed expensive treatment generating more profit. He refers to chemotherapy using the term quackery.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/026305_medicine_child_chemotherapy.html The Quackery of Chemotherapy, Gunpoint Medicine and the Disturbing Fate of 13-Year-Old Daniel Hauser], Mike Adams, Natural News May 20, 2009, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> He is also a hardcore [[Truther|9/11 truther]], [[birther]], and pretty much everything else-er.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/017337.html The War On Truth: 9/11, Disinformation And The Anatomy Of Terrorism], Book review on Natural News, retrieved 2011-05-26.</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/032217_Obama_birth_certificate.html Obama birth certificate is just as authentic as the money supply, the food supply and Obamacare], Mike Adams, Natural News April 28, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-26.</ref>

Adams advertises products like [[Himalaya salt]], [[Maca]], some Chinese herbs, minerals, protein shakes and [[spirulina]]-products.

Adams advertises products like [[Himalaya salt]], [[Maca]], some Chinese herbs, minerals, protein shakes, and [[spirulina]] products.

His views are propagated in Germany by the [[Kopp Verlag]].

In Germany, his views are propagated by publishers [[Kopp Verlag]].

==Short Biography==

==Short Biography==

[[image:ArialSoftware.jpg|Arial Software LLC in Cody, Wyoming|thumb]]

[[image:ArialSoftware.jpg|Arial Software LLC in Cody, Wyoming|thumb]]

About Adams biography almost nothing is known. In his own biography<ref>[http://www.healthranger.org/bio.html The Health Ranger is born], Biography of Mike Adams on Natural News, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> only some vague details are given. He claims to have been a software executive. At the age of 30, he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a disease brought on by poor diet and severe lack of exercise, and claims to have healed himself with a diet and without medical help. A diet is part of a normal therapy of scientific medicine for that type of disease and type 2 diabetes can be brought under control.<br>

There is almost no information available in the way of biographic data. His  autobiography<ref>[http://www.healthranger.org/bio.html The Health Ranger is born], Biography of Mike Adams on Natural News, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> only presents a few vague details. He claims to have been an executive in a software company. At the age of 30, he allegedly was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a disease caused by his nutritional habits and a severe lack of exercise, and claims to have cured himself with a diet and without medical help. A diet is part of the usual therapy of scientific medicine for that type of disease which can be controled this way.<br>

==Disinformation about Vaccines==

==Disinformation about Vaccines==

Adams claims in his articles that vaccination is not only the cause for asthma, allergies and autism, he also claims that there are no "legitimate" studies about vaccination. In essence the usual disinformation of [[vaccine denialism]] are expatiated.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html Evidence-based vaccinations: A scientific look at the missing science behind flu season vaccines],Mike Adams, Natural News September 2, 2010, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/031197_Sherri_Tenpenny_vaccines.html Sherri Tenpenny warns parents about safety of vaccines in Natural News interview], Mike Adams, Natural News February 3, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref>

In his articles, Adams claims vaccination was not only the cause of asthma, allergies and autism, he also suggests there were no "legitimate" studies on vaccination. In essence, the usual disinformation prevailing in [[vaccine denialism]] is being reproduced.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html Evidence-based vaccinations: A scientific look at the missing science behind flu season vaccines],Mike Adams, Natural News September 2, 2010, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/031197_Sherri_Tenpenny_vaccines.html Sherri Tenpenny warns parents about safety of vaccines in Natural News interview], Mike Adams, Natural News February 3, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref>

Baseless claims about [[Andrew Wakefield]] and his innocence as well as allegedly "new evidence" is being spread.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/031117_BMJ_Dr_Andrew_Wakefield.html Mike Adams zu Andrew Wakefield]</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/031116_Dr_Andrew_Wakefield_British_Medical_Journal.html Documents emerge proving Dr Andrew Wakefield innocent; BMJ and Brian Deer caught misrepresenting the facts], Mike Adams, NaturalNews January 26, 2011,  retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> These allegedly "new" evidence was submitted in the trial of Wakefield years ago and is neither new nor a proof for Wakefields innocence.<ref>[http://www.skepdic.com/skeptimedia/skeptimedia122.html Wakefield's Warriors], Skeptic's Dictionary about the "new evidence" for Wakefields innocence], retrieved 2011-05-21</ref>

Unfounded claims about [[Andrew Wakefield]] and his innocence as well as alleged "new evidence" is being spread.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/031117_BMJ_Dr_Andrew_Wakefield.html Mike Adams zu Andrew Wakefield]</ref><ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/031116_Dr_Andrew_Wakefield_British_Medical_Journal.html Documents emerge proving Dr Andrew Wakefield innocent; BMJ and Brian Deer caught misrepresenting the facts], Mike Adams, NaturalNews January 26, 2011,  retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> This purported "new" evidence was already submitted during the lawsuit against Wakefield years earlier and is neither new nor a proof of Wakefield's innocence.<ref>[http://www.skepdic.com/skeptimedia/skeptimedia122.html Wakefield's Warriors], Skeptic's Dictionary about the "new evidence" for Wakefields innocence], retrieved 2011-05-21</ref>

==Disinformation about HIV Infection and HIV-Tests==

==Disinformation about HIV Infection and HIV-Tests==

The medical amateur Adams published a misinforming treatise on his site about about HIV (which was reprinted in Germany by the publisher [[Kopp Verlag]]). He claims erroneously in it that: ''HIV vaccines cause 50 percent false positive rate in HIV tests'' and that todays HIV tests only test for antibodies for HIV.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/029236_HIV_vaccine.html HIV vaccines cause 50 percent false positive rate in HIV tests], Mike Adams, Natural News 20. Juli 2010, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> That's plain wrong: PCR-tests detect parts of the HI-virus and ELISA-screening tests of the 4th&nbsp;generation (since about 1999) detect the p24-Antigen of HIV1 directly. Adams Aussage claim just applies to ELISA-screening tests till 3rd&nbsp;generation, and to Western-Blot-control test.

Publishers Kopp Verlag included a disinforming publication on their website which was authored by Adams, a medical lay person. He wrongly claims: „HIV vaccines cause a 50 per cent false positive rate in HIV tests“, and that today's HIV test only established HIV antibodies.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/029236_HIV_vaccine.html HIV vaccines cause 50 percent false positive rate in HIV tests], Mike Adams, Natural News 20. Juli 2010, retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> This is simply wrong: PCR-tests detect parts of the HI-virus and 4th generation ELISA screening tests (introduced approx. 1999) directly detect the p24-antigen of HIV1. Adams' statement only applies to ELISA screening tests up until their 3rd&nbsp;generation, and to Western-Blot-control tests.

Adams claims furthermore that: ''In some circumstances, up to 50 percent of HIV positive are false, causing havoc with the lives of those patients who are falsely accused of being " HIV positive.''. Adams refers in this case to a group of persons who were vaccinated against HIV for research purposes and formed antibodies subsequently. Adams drew wrong conclusions, that HIV-test are losing credibility.

Adams furthermore claims: ''Given certain conditions, up to 50 percent of HIV positive may be false, wreaking havoc to the lives of those patients who are falsely rated  HIV positive.'' Adams refers to a group of persons who were vaccinated against HIV for research purposes and subsequently formed antibodies. Adams came to the  wrong conclusion HIV-tests were losing credibility.

But Adams is silent on the fact, that there exists no approved HIV vaccine and certainly no widespread vaccination campaigns. The claims of Adams are therefore completely irrelevant for the general population.

However, Adams conceals the fact that there is no approved HIV vaccine and much less are there any widespread vaccination campaigns. Adams' statements therefore are completely irrelevant for the general population.

A HIV Infection cannot be detected with an ELISA screening test only, even if the test statement is quite reliable. It is a screening test designed to detect potentially infected persons. The sensitivity of the ELISA test is given with 99,9%. This means that from 1.000&nbsp;HIV positive test persons 999&nbsp;are correctly identified and one is diagnosed with a false-negative result. The specificity is 99,8%. This means, that from 1.000&nbsp;not HIV positive test persons 998 receive a correct negative result and just&nbsp;2 a false-positive result. A positive result in this test is never communicated to the tested person before a second, more expensive and extensive Western Blot control test confirmed the result. This control test has a specificity of about 99,9996%.<ref>Kleinman et al: False-Positive HIV-1 Test Results in a Low-Risk Screening Setting of Voluntary Blood Donation. JAMA. 280, Nr. 12, 1998, S. 1080-1085. PMID 9757856</ref>

A HIV infection cannot be established only by an ELISA screening test, although the test statement is quite reliable. It is a screening test designed to detect potentially infected persons. The sensitivity of the ELISA test is given at 99.9%. This means that out of 1,000&nbsp;HIV positive test persons, 999&nbsp;will be correctly identified, while one will be diagnosed with a false negative result. The specificity is 99.8%. This means that out of 1,000&nbsp;test persons not HIV positive, 998 will receive a correct negative result and just&nbsp;2 a false positive result. A positive result in this test is never communicated to the tested person unless a second, more expensive and extensive Western Blot control test confirms the result. This control test has a specificity of about 99.9996%.<ref>Kleinman et al: False-Positive HIV-1 Test Results in a Low-Risk Screening Setting of Voluntary Blood Donation. JAMA. 280, No. 12, 1998, p. 1080-1085. PMID 9757856</ref>

The pseudo documentation [[House of Numbers]] is also uncritically spread <ref>[http://info.kopp-verlag.de/medizin-und-gesundheit/natuerliches-heilen/mike-adams/ungekuerzte-fassung-von-house-of-numbers-zeigt-schockierende-wahrheit-ueber-aids-.html Mike Adams shows House of Numbers at the publisher Kopp Verlag], retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> and on various pages the "Mythos AIDS" is doubted.<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/027354_AIDS_immune_system.html The AIDS myth exposed: Why experts are challenging conventional AIDS mythology], Mike Adams, Natural News October 29, 2011</ref>

Adams also uncritically spreads the pseudo documentation [[House of Numbers]] <ref>[http://info.kopp-verlag.de/medizin-und-gesundheit/natuerliches-heilen/mike-adams/ungekuerzte-fassung-von-house-of-numbers-zeigt-schockierende-wahrheit-ueber-aids-.html Mike Adams shows House of Numbers at the publisher Kopp Verlag], retrieved 2011-05-21.</ref> and, on various pages, doubts the "AIDS myth".<ref>[http://www.naturalnews.com/027354_AIDS_immune_system.html The AIDS myth exposed: Why experts are challenging conventional AIDS mythology], Mike Adams, Natural News October 29, 2011</ref>

 

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