In light of the endless foul stink bombs
generated over the past year by the Oaf of Office, #NotMyPresident Donald J. Trump,
it may be tempting to dismiss the foibles of Scamworld as
relatively minor matters, comparatively speaking. Even so,
Scamworld is still this blog's main beat, and although, as I've
noted previously, Herr Twitler has sucked a lot of oxygen from
this pitiful little outpost of the blogosphere, Scamworld remains
a matter of consequence both here and in the larger world, as do the
New-Wage/selfish-help/McSpirituality/alt-health gurus who keep
that big sick machine humming. Given today's milieu they are doubly
consequential in the cases where Scamworld and politix intersect,
and since several of this blog's least-favorite snargets are
Trump fans, that intersection is pretty busy these days.
Anyway. This isn't the newest of news, but it's less than two
weeks old, so just in case you missed it....
One of Donald Trump's most histrionically vocal sycophants is pseudoscientist and conspiracy monger Mike "The Health Ranger" Adams, whom we've snargeted here numerous times before. Adams loves him some Trump and
has even written that in order to save a divided America from
civil war, Trump should do everything possible to "shut
down" the subversive, evil left, apparently by imprisoning
them and destroying all of their media. Now, as I've noted
before, Adams could just be playing the role of provocateur in
order to get clicks and sell his numerous frauducts to stupid
right-wingers, and it's possible that he does not really
believe that freedom of expression should be totally destroyed in
the US. But you never know with these alt-right types.
Another thing to know about Adams is that he is irrationally and
hysterically anti-vaccination -- in fact, that's another one of
his pet causes, perhaps even more beloved than the cause of
keeping his nose well-browned from rooting around up in Trump. On
January 20 of this year, Adams posted about a threatening email that a deranged vaccine
advocate apparently sent to another vocal anti-vaxxer, Suzanne
Humphries, M.D. (Not-Doktor Leonard Coldwell, another alt-right lunatic who's considerably stupider and
more evil than Adams, but is just as enamored of Trump, copied and pasted Adams' post for his own
"blog.")
The email Dr. Humphries claims to have received is a blatant,
expletive-filled death threat, but instead of treating it as an
aberration the anti-vaxxers, including Adams, are reacting in
their usual way, conflating an isolated loony with the entire
"pro-vax" movement. Since the email is crude and only
marginally literate, it could hardly be expected to be the work
of professional propagandists from Big Pharma, but that is
exactly what some of the alarmed anti-vaxxers are suggesting
(just read some of the comments on this post on the Vactruth.com site).
Don't get me wrong. I'm certainly not claiming that Dr. Humphries
is wrong to be alarmed; she should take every due precaution to
protect herself. But tossing the sender of this lunatic threat
into the same category as the millions of health professionals,
scientists, researchers, and ordinary folks who don't practice
the anti-vax true religion is either (1) ignorant; (2)
misinformed; (3) disingenuous; or (4) just plain stupid. Indeed,
the anti-vax movement is characterized by all four of those
factors -- it's a big tent, so big that it even has room for Donald Trump -- so take your
pick.
If the Health Danger had just stuck to his anti-vax message in
his January 20 post, it wouldn't have grabbed my attention, but
he apparently felt compelled to drag Dr. David Gorski, who writes
the
excellent Respectful Insolence blog
under the name "Orac," into the drama.
After quoting -- in full -- the offending email received by Dr.
Humphries, Adams added, gratuitously (and out of courtesy for Dr.
Gorski, I have removed Adams' embedded links):
This threatening, psychopathic
language, by the way, reminds me of Dr. David Gorski, an
extremely dangerous, sociopathic vaccine-pushing doctor who
viciously attacks and lies about anyone trying to expose the
truth about vaccines. Dr. Gorski’s colleague, Dr. Farid
Fata, was indicted by the FBI for cancer treatment fraud and
is now serving 20+ years in federal prison. Dr. Gorski worked
alongside this cancer fraudster and evil criminal in the
Detroit area, with links to the Karmanos Cancer Centers.
Natural News has previously reported Dr. Gorski to the FBI
and has named him as one of the six most sickeningly evil
propagandists currently operating in the realm of medicine.
He currently works for the Karmanos Center Center in Michigan
and spends his work hours editing Wikipedia to savage “vaccine
truthers” by posting false, defamatory and slanderous
information on their Wikipedia pages. Dr. Gorski is a
surgical oncologist who scars black women for profit and
pushes deceptive cancer propaganda on the public, much like
his colleague Dr. Farid Fata also did before he was arrested
and indicted for multiple felony crimes.
This is far from the first time that Adams has
defamed Dr. Gorski (see this April 2016 post,
f'rinstance, under "Mike Adams defames Dr. David
Gorski"). On the very ill-named TruthWiki, which Adams has
claimed is an "objective" alternative to that evil
bastion of liberalism, Wikipedia, Dr. Gorski has even been gifted
with special tags and categories (e.g., "lunatic blogger").
Now, that's real objective. On many occasions Dr Gorski has
addressed these false accusations against him, but it does no
good; Adams just keeps hammering away.
And make no mistake: As biased, untruthful and irrational as they
are, Adams' defamatory rants against Dr. Gorski have exerted
their influence on the search engines. Actor William Shatner was even fooled by Adams' nonsense last year when doing "research" on Gorski and the
vaccination issue (see "Captain Kirk goes berserk."
There's also a link to the Respectful Insolence post about the
matter.).
So despite Adams' longstanding whines about Google suppressing and
oppressing him, the world's favorite
search engine has in fact been one of his greatest enablers.
What you probably won't be hearing from Mike
Adams -- or Dr. Suzanne Humphries, for that matter -- is that Dr.
Gorski is just as alarmed and disgusted about this email as any
anti-vaxxer. And he stated this in no uncertain terms on a January 24
blog post on Respectful Insolence.
Wrote Gorski/Orac:
OK, full stop right here. If you’re a
pro-vaxer and want to make death threats against anyone, even
antivax loons like Suzanne Humphries, you are not on my side.
I don’t care what your reasons are. I don’t care if you
weren’t serious. I don’t care if it was your idea of a
sick joke. I don’t care if you were just trying to rattle
her (which you clearly succeeded in doing in a spectacular
fashion in this case). I disavow you. I condemn you. I spit
on you. I hope the authorities find you, even though I know
the chances for a successful prosecution in these cases are
low.
Now here’s the thing. I know of no pro-vaccine advocate who
feels otherwise. I know of no one on our side who approves of
behavior like this directed against antivaxers—or anyone
else. We don’t want this sort of stuff being associated
with our side, because it’s wrong. We don’t need it,
because we have science on our side, and anything like this
hurts our cause, not helps us...
Following that, Gorski reproduced the email in
its entirety, as Adams and the anti-vax web sites had done. He
then added:
Yes, this is utterly vile and
despicable, and it just goes to show that there are assholes
and disturbed people everywhere, and not all pro-vaxers are
pure in motivation and behavior. Regardless of where they
came from, such threats deserve only our contempt. Even if
this idiot was not serious and was just trying to frighten or
rattle Humphries, he (and it’s almost certainly a he)
deserves nothing but contempt.
On the other hand…
Am I alone in thinking it…odd…just how eager antivaxers
are to publicize this? I’ve gotten the occasional death
threat before, albeit, admittedly, none quite so long and
extravagant. I’ve never publicized them. I rarely mention
them. I know a number of skeptical bloggers who’ve had the
same experience. I’ve known skeptics who’ve had stalkers.
They rarely mention the issue.
Yet, here we have Suzanne Humphries proclaiming the issue to
the world. We also have the Health Danger weaponizing this e-mail against me...
And "weaponizing" is exactly the right
word for what Mike Adams is doing to David Gorski. (I will say,
though, that it's not really surprising that antivaxers, and
indeed many of the most vocal alt-health advocates, are eager to
publicize threats against themselves, both real and imagined. In the
shrill video he made about the threat
against Dr. Humphries, Mike Adams also brings up the fallacious
"dead holistic doctors" conspiracy narrative -- which I initially wrote about in this August 2015 post, and then again in July 2016 (under "Dead
holistic docs conspiracy rages on"). The alt-health
hysterics never miss an opportunity to push that contrived story,
which is part of a larger false narrative: that of the Brave Maverick Doctor.)
Gorski reiterates that all of the claims Adams made about him in
his latest post are lies, as is the insinuation that Gorski would
ever write anything resembling that email. He adds that he
despises whoever made those threats against Suzanne Humphries,
and then wonders if Dr. Humphries would do him a solid and
"do the same thing regarding Mike Adams' campaign of lies
and defamation" against Gorski.
"I won't be holding my breath," he writes. And given
that Humphries seems to be allied with Adams (judging from at least one of her Facebook posts from
April 2016), I think Dr. Gorski is wise
to hold his breath:
It looks like Natural News is filing a
legal complaint that names "Orac", the
self-proclaimed sci-blogger whose real name is David Gorsky
[sic]. I'm sure his backers will get him the most aggressive
attorneys and spare no cost on cutting him loose from the
charges. Most of us vaccine critical doctors have been on the
other end of his pen...
Much more recently -- on January 19, to be exact --
Dr. Humphries posted on Facebook about the death-threat email, saying that "the opposition is
losing its mind."
I still think that Dr. Gorski may have the grounds for a
seriously good defamation case against Mike Adams, but then
again, I don't blame him for not wanting to waste time, money,
and energy on the lunatic fringe of the anti-vax movement. Keep on blogging, Orac.
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Like most career fear-mongers and conspiracy
tale peddlers, Mike Adams, aka the Health
Ranger, head of the NaturalNews
"independent journalism" scampire, seems to care far more about sensationalism than about
accuracy. This is no big secret. I'm not breaking any new ground
here. The skeptical blogs have been on
his case for years, and RationalWiki has an entry about him,
which redirects to their entry about NaturalNews.
But I've mentioned Adams a few times on this blog too. I first wrote about him in June 2013, in response to a Natural News post about one of this
blog's favorite topics, imprisoned serial scammer Kevin Trudeau, aka KT, aka
Katie. In that post I cited Adams' disregard for accuracy, as
reflected in a patently false statement about the $37.6 million
FTC fine hanging over Trudeau's head. Mike Adams' big headline
proclaimed:
Kevin Trudeau ordered to surrender his passports as feds try
to force $37 million in GIN refunds
And to this day, nearly three years later, the
headline remains intact.
GIN, as most of you probably know, is
the Global Information Network, a major scam that was originally
Trudeau's brainchild and personal piggy bank. It was officially
launched in late 2009 and continues operation to this day, under"new" ownership (a group of Katie's longtime buddies).
But here's the thing (as the stunning, slow-motion-walking,
marginally age-appropriate and vaguely predatory-looking women love to
say on the Viagra commercials that are currently airing in the
US). Wait, I lost my train of thought.
Oh, yeah. Here's the thing: that $37.6 million fine
Adams blared in his headline has nothing to do with GIN refunds.
Rather, it is in relation to a civil contempt case (which also
became a criminal contempt case, and it's the criminal case that
ultimately landed Katie in prison). The fine had to do with
claims Trudeau made in an infomercial about his diet book. But
the case itself had been ongoing since 2003, though Trudeau's history of wrongdoing dates back years before that. Even after
Trudeau serves his ten-year sentence he will still owe that fine,
probably with interest, unless he can negotiate to get it reduced
or reversed.
But as I explained in my 2013 blog post, the fact
that the fine had nothing to do with GIN refunds was of no import
to Mike Adams, whose own post provided only the lamest of
criticisms of Trudeau's possible wrongdoings. The main purpose of
Adams' post wasn't to call out Trudeau's fraud, but rather to
engage in one of Adams' favorite hobbies: wingnut political
ranting against President Obama. Adams scoffed at the description by ABC News of Trudeau as a seller of
dreams and false hopes, citing Obama as
a much worse offender in that regard. Had he chosen to do so,
Adams could have corrected the error on his post regarding the
fine, and still left his political rants intact. But he didn't.
And for the most part he seemed to be defending Trudeau rather
than criticizing him, which is why I referred to Adams as a phony
hero in the battle against Scamworld.
I recognize, though, that the misstatement about Trudeau's fine
is just one small and relatively trivial goof in Adams' massive and seemingly quite profitable ouevre
of misinformation, distortion and outright lies. And he's not
just a deceiver; he's a deceiver who has, according to several reports, physically threatened those with
whom he disagrees, as I mentioned in this 2014 blog post (see under
the subhead, "Who is oppressing whom?"). Adams' claims
that he is constantly being persecuted, threatened and endangered
seem hypocritical when you consider some of his attempts to
intimidate and threaten others.
More recently, Mike Adams was front and center in
the conspiracy speculation about actor Rober De Niro's decision
not to show the anti-vaccination fraudumentary Vaxxed at
the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Here's my blog post, in which I
linked to one of Adams' rants about the matter. And now we get to the main point of my present post:
Adams uses that rant to seriously defame someone with whom he
appears to be obsessed these days: a popular physician blogger. With this
series of defamatory posts Mike Adams and some of his staffers appear to have reached a new low.
Mike Adams defames Dr. David Gorski
Adams and Dr. Gorski (aka Orac, author of the Respectful Insolence blog) have been at odds for years,
but Adams' recent series of vicious attacks on Dr. Gorski almost
seem like he's asking for a lawsuit. Here's another one of his screeds. In this one as in others, Adams falsely links Dr.
Gorski with a fraudulent doctor, Farid Fata, whom Dr. Gorski does
not know but has repeatedly described as "evil."
And indeed "evil" seems an understatement. Though
ultimately prosecuted and put away for money laundering and
fraud, Dr. Fata's true evil lay in
the fact that he administered chemo to patients for years,
telling them they had cancer when they didn't, and then he billed
Medicare. He also over-treated terminal cancer patients rather
than let them die peacefully, and when he could profit from it he
under-treated cancer patients who very likely could have
otherwise benefited. Last year he was sentenced to 45 years in
federal prison.
Equally as repulsive, Adams is also spreading
unsubstantiated rumors -- lies, most likely -- about Dr. Gorski
being very unpopular with his patients. The basis of this claim
seems to be a collection of what appear to be fake reviews
planted by some Gorski/Orac detractors who more than likely
have never been his patients.
Clearly Adams is on the offensive to destroy Dr.
Gorski's reputation. As has been the case with other scammers
I've written about, Scientology Fair Game policies and practices come to my mind. And indeed, for several years rumors
have been floating around that Mike Adams has been somehow involved with Scientology. He certainly seems sympathetic to them and some of
their viewpoints. This doesn't mean that he is involved with
Scientology now (he has said he is not a Scientologist) or that
his own Fair-Game-ish strategies are dictated by that evil
"Church." But he seems to be using some of the same
strategies of lies and intimidation that CoS has been using for
decades. And those are disgusting tactics, regardless of
one's "religious" affiliation or lack thereof.
Here is one of David Gorski's posts outlining and
deconstructing the series of lies that Mike Adams is perpetrating
about him.
But Dr. Gorski's attempts to defend himself don't
seem to be making a dent in the NaturalNews universe of
deception. Turning the skeptics' own terms around on them, Adams
labels evidence-based medicine and science
"pseudoscience." (And in a particularly loathsome
rhetorical strategy, he has co-opted the very real problem of
Holocaust denial, nattering on about "vaccine Holocaust
denial.")
Adams also labels Gorski as a charlatan and cancer quack, which,
given the sins of some of Adams' own alt-health colleagues and
scammers, is a classic pot-and-kettle
case. As I noted above, these days on Natural News he seems
completely obsessed with Dr. Gorski. Immediately below is a
screen shot of the home page of Natural News on April 24, 2016.
Notice the list of links on the right hand side. The far right
column ("Health News") semi-pretends to be a list of
links from outside news sources, but they are all from NewsTarget.com, which is very much Mike Adams' site as well.
Trying to conquer the Internet, one comical alt-site at a time
But I guess all of this is to be expected from the guy who is so
afraid of people finding out the truth about him and his
colleagues that he started his own lame version of Wikipedia: the very
ill-named TruthWiki. (Here's the TruthWiki
entry about David Gorski. And while
we're at it, here's Gorski, as Orac, writing about TruthWiki in
2014.)
Adams is also the guy who decided to give Google a run for their
money by launching the also ill-named GoodGopher. GoodGopher very carefully filters out what they
consider "disinformation" and government/Big Pharma
propaganda, instead stacking their search results with alt-nutty
and rightwing sites (which are euphemistically called
"independent news media") such as NaturalNews (of
course!) as well as Breitbart, The Blaze, Washington Times (owned
and run by Moonies), Drudge Report, Western Journalism and more.
It's a pretty lousy search engine, but it's tailor-made for the no-evil monkeys who want to avoid any fact or opinion that might
shake their carefully constructed world of alt-health advocacy,
Scamworld delusions, conspiracy theories and right-wing spin.
And despite Google's well documented evils such as tracking and
privacy invasion -- not to mention the whole thing about
sponsored links -- Google does seem to be trying to preserve and
improve the integrity of search. Moreover it's not as if Google
censors Mike Adams or any of his other lunatic fraud buddies. If
you Google "Mike Adams," the first couple of entries
are his own sites. There are some inconvenient results mentioning
his quackery, though, which of course you'll not find on
GoodGopher.
Another example: If you Google "Leonard Coldwell,"
there's currently a big sponsored entry that pops up first,
describing Coldwell as an "Author" -- and it's all
fluff and no criticism. It even refers to him as a doctor. But
again... darn those critical links, which seem to pop up in the
top results no matter what Coldwell's SEO team does. RationalWiki's piece always
seems to be up there.
Speaking of which, here's
the RationalWiki entry on GoodGopher.
The conspiracy that isn't
Like so many in the "alternative media"
sector, Mike Adams never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like, particularly if it involves Big Pharma and other
aspects of modern medicine. Especially vaccinations. The vax-conspiracy fans have all sorts of stories about how vaccinations are a nefarious plot by the New
World Order to control the population by making undesirables
sterile or outright killing them... or that vaccinations are being used to implant RFID chips to track us... or they're being used to make us all gay...
you get the drift.
Where Dr. Gorski is concerned Adams has gleefully fabricated
several conspiracy tales, not just falsely linking Dr. G. with
the loathsome Dr. Fata but also bringing Wikipedia and The
Huffington Post into his twisted, tangled narrative.
In his latest series of screeds Adams has accused Gorski of
creating, editing or somehow being involved in manipulating the
edits of a Wikipedia post about the documentary Vaxxed, which includes many critical comments about the film.
Never mind that Gorski insists -- and the Wikipedia edit
history indicates -- that Gorski had nothing to do with it. Adams
continues to spread his lies, and his fans enthusiastically
embrace his version of "reality."
Another tale that has the reality-impaired
fringe of the Interwebz buzzing is the claim that Huffington
Post pulled an article about Vaxxed that was
written by a guy named Lance Simmens, who had been a contributor
to HuffPo for eight years. Although that supposed
"censorship" is actually a standalone story and has
been treated as such by most of the sites that mentioned it, leave it to Mike Adams to conflate the story with his
false accusations about Gorski, both in his headline and post on
April 19.
Now, there are several reasons to be critical of Huffington
Post, and I've criticized them in the past for posting fluff
by scammers such as convicted killer James Arthur Ray and
Scientologist Grant Cardone. Another reason to not be a fan is their utter disregard for independent contributors. Dr. Gorski has also criticized HuffPo.
And according to Wikipedia...
The Huffington Post has been criticized
by several science bloggers and online news sources for
including articles by supporters of alternative
medicine and anti-vaccine
activists and for allegedly censoring rebuttals written by
science bloggers before publishing them.[64][65]
So I seriously doubt there was some conspiracy
to quash favorable reviews of or comments about Vaxxed
on The Huffington Post. I doubt even more seriously that Dr. Gorski was involved in "censoring" the article.
But Mike Adams knows his audience well. The comments on his
various posts about this so-called "conspiracy" -- and
indeed all of his posts about Dr. Gorski -- are truly comical,
and none of his followers seems willing to believe that things
could be other than the way Adams laid them out. A few defenders
of Gorski (not me, but others), and even Gorski himself, have
been allowed to comment but were dismissed by the minions.
In truth there is no conspiracy here. But, to
quote one of this blog's favorite mantras: The facts don't matter
if the story is good. And Adams knows that his readers love them some
good conspiracy whoppers, and he gives them what they want.
Loony wants in on the drama
Not surprisingly, the aforementioned fake doctor, cancer quack and
fellow conspiracy nutcake Leonard Coldwell is faithfully
copying and pasting the defamatory blog posts about Dr. Gorski on
his own "blog" on his main web site. There are no
comments there so far, though I tried to post a comment yesterday
on the April 18 offering, with
a link to this blog post of Dr Gorski's.
One of the posts that Coldwell copied and pasted from
Natural News wasn't written by Mike
Adams but rather by one of Adams' staffers, Julie Wilson. It was
published on April 20. This part, where Ms. Wilson quotes Adams,
seems particularly defamatory:
"If we genuinely care about the
health and safety of cancer patients, we must reasonably ask
how many patients have died under the care of Drs. Farid Fata
or David Gorski? How many of those patients were
African-American?" asked Mike Adams, author of Food
Forensics,science lab director of CWLabs dot com and creator
of Medicine dot news.
"Is there a disparity in patient outcomes between blacks
and whites? We already know that Dr. Farid Fata committed
systematic medical murder involving Karmanos in Detroit. That
is now established fact. What we don't know is how many other
people have died from dangerous medical interventions carried
out by other colleagues such as Dr. David Gorski."
Bringing the race card into it in this way
seems to be a new record even for Adams. And Adams' continued
insistence on linking Dr. Gorski with Farid Fata does seem almost
criminal.
And this April 23 post by Adams himself, describing Dr. Gorski as "a deranged, mentally
ill cancer surgeon who is widely known as a pathological
liar" is over-the-top wacko, sounding very much like the
kind of stuff that Coldwell writes about his critics (e.g., me,
Salty Droid, et al.). Except the spelling is better than Lenny's.
In this post Adams even brings other alt-health scammers into
play, quoting Ty Bollinger of "Truth About Cancer"infamy. But again, I have to wonder if Adams is just baiting Dr.
G for a lawsuit.
By the way, to give you another view of just how objective and
reliable Adams' TruthWiki is, here's the entry on Leonard Coldwell. As you can easily see, it is taken straight from
Coldwell's web propaganda.
At any rate my attempts to comment on Natural News, as well as my
attempts to comment on Coldwell's blog, have been a failure so
far. It is probably a losing battle. But as long as the skeptical
blogs remain up on the Internet, and searchable via real search
engines, there's at least a chance for people to see Adams and
his ilk for what they are. Here is the Skeptical Raptor with a concise summary of
Mike Adams' lies about David Gorski.
Happy searching. I'll try to keep you posted about
developments in this ongoing drama, but you can also keep
apprised via Respectful Insolence and Dr. Gorski's posts on the
Science Based Medicine blog. For his part Dr. Gorski seems to be
taking it all in stride. As he
wrote, "being lied about by Adams is a badge of honor."
PS added on April 25: On
the Science-Based Medicine blog, Dr. Gorski wrote:
NOTE: Anyone
who has seen several derogatory articles about me on the web
and is curious about what the real story is, please read this, this, and this.
I'd already linked to the second item a couple
of times on this blog, but I thought it worth repeating,
especially since the conversation there is ongoing.
PPS added on May 5: When
Googling this topic this morning I came across a blog post on Forbes.com from another physician, Dr.
Peter Lipson, a practicing physician
specializing in internal medicine. Clearly Dr. Lipson is a friend
of Dr. Gorski's and no fan of Mike Adams, and for me it's easy to
see why on both counts. From Dr. Lipson's post:
Just this week, Adams published a piece
titled, ”Karmanos cancer surgeon
Dr. David Gorski linked to ‘skeptics’ kingpin James Randi
caught on tape soliciting bl*w job from young man – source.” The really scary thing here is that the
headline is the least inflammatory part of the article.
Let’s put aside the fact that the
headline seems to imply that Gorski was the one doing the
soliciting. Further reading shows that he simply knows the
man who Adams is accusing of sexual improprieties. That sort
of cowardly, defamatory garbage is just the lede. The real
attacks come in the body of the blog. Here’s the
point-by-point breakdown of Adams’s lies,
dishonest allegations and defamatory (at least in my lay
opinion) accusations:
- Non-existent FBI investigation:
Dr. David Gorski–already the subject
of a Natural News investigation that has submitted
numerous allegations to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation…
If you read carefully and follow the
links, you see that Dr. Gorski is not the subject of any
investigation but the one in Mike Adams’s own head. Adams’s
writes that he himself has pestered the FBI to look into
Gorski for…”reasons”? Making it seem as if a
well-respected surgeon is the subject of a federal
investigation is a dangerous road to go down.
- Alleged “racketeering”:
Dr. David Gorski…is the
mentally deranged leader of an online hate group
calling themselves “skeptics.” An ongoing
Natural News investigation has revealed that
Gorski is just one of several co-conspirators who
engage in online racketeering, identity
deceptions and alleged cyber crimes to commit
scientific fraud while destroying their targeted
enemies in the holistic health realm.
Much of this is simply deranged
opinion, but to state as fact that someone is “mentally
deranged” and “leader of an online hate group”
is dangerously close to making harmful, knowingly
false statements about someone. And to state as fact
that someone is engaged in a racketeering scheme
seems to go well beyond “opinion.”
- Guilt by association:
David Gorski’s colleague was
just convicted of massive medical fraud and
sentenced to 45 years in federal prison
This is as far as I can read
without actually vomiting. Here in the Detroit area,
a cancer doctor named Farid Fata was sentenced to prison for crimes
that, for doctors like David Gorski and me, are so
horrific as to be nearly indescribable...
I quoted Dr. Lipson at length -- and I hope he
doesn't mind -- because the NaturalNews article linked to in his
post (and here is that link again)
appears to be gone now. Instead the link directs to a classically
and characteristically arrogant but relatively innocuous August
2014 piece called, Top ten scientific achievements of
Natural News and the Health Ranger (so far).
But clearly the offensive article existed for a while,
since enough still shows up on Google search results from today
(May 5, 2016) to indicate that Dr. Lipson wasn't just pulling
words out of thin air.
And equally clearly, Adams isn't finished with Dr. Gorski, for
here is yet another defamatory screed from today.
How long will Adams continue to get away with this before someone
takes legal action? As I said above, he seems to be baiting Dr.
Gorski. Maybe he thinks he can nab Gorski et al. through
discovery if they take the bait and sue him, or maybe he's just
looking forward to being Gollum and crying that he meant no harm,
but the fat Hobbit is out to get him.
But meanwhile Adams is possibly causing
real harm to Dr. Gorski by pulling every dirty SEO trick in the
book, littering the Internet with defamatory content via dozens
of dummy sites in order to vilify the good doctor. (Why doesn't
Google penalize Adams for that? Or do they? I don't know enough
about how this stuff works to be able to tell.)
Amusingly, the dummy-site strategy is much the same thing that
the profoundly stupid and evil Not-Doctor Leonard Coldwell
accused me of doing to "defame" him, though in
that case he was falsely accusing me, as I can barely keep up
with my one little blog and my Facebook profile, both of which
have my real name and online contact information.
And so it goes. The question is: when will it stop?
