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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 a 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]], an outspoken critic of FDA and critic of mainstream medicine, especially regarding the use of prescription drugs. His business practices are regarded as dubious by various sources, and he received several warnings by FDA for violating the law by advertising products using false and exaggerated claims. He is criticized for applying snake-oil vendors' methods, promising expensive products ''free of charge'' and scaring visitors of his website into buying his products with his articles.<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/may2006/sb20060523_063274.htm Old-Time Sales Tricks on the Net], Business Week, May 23 2006</ref>
[[image:mercola.gif|right|300px|Mercola's residence in Illinois<ref>[http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/mercola.html FDA Orders Dr. Joseph Mercola to Stop Illegal Claims]</ref>]]
'''Joseph Mercola''' (born July 8, 1954) is a 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]], an outspoken critic of FDA and critic of mainstream medicine, especially regarding the use of prescription drugs. His business practices are regarded as dubious by various sources, and he received several warnings by FDA for violating the law by advertising products using false and exaggerated claims. He is criticized for applying snake-oil vendors' methods, promising expensive products ''free of charge'' and scaring visitors of his website into buying his products with his articles.<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/may2006/sb20060523_063274.htm Old-Time Sales Tricks on the Net], Business Week, May 23 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.skepdic.com/mercola.html Joseph Mercola, D.O.] in the Skeptic's Dictionary</ref>
==Short biography==
==Short biography==
He also promotes the [[Sodium_Bicarbonate_Therapy_according_to_Tullio_Simoncini Sodium Bicarbonate Therapy according to Tullio Simoncini]], which must be considered one of the most ineffective and absurd methods claiming to cure cancer patients. Simoncini believes that cancer is a fungus and that it can be cured with baking soda.<ref>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/05/fungus-causing-cancer-a-novel-approach-to-the-most-common-form-of-death.aspx</ref>
He also promotes the [[Sodium_Bicarbonate_Therapy_according_to_Tullio_Simoncini Sodium Bicarbonate Therapy according to Tullio Simoncini]], which must be considered one of the most ineffective and absurd methods claiming to cure cancer patients. Simoncini believes that cancer is a fungus and that it can be cured with baking soda.<ref>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/05/fungus-causing-cancer-a-novel-approach-to-the-most-common-form-of-death.aspx</ref>
==Mercola on Food==
==Mercola on Food==