Disinformation King — Joseph Mercola

David Gamble
Science and Critical Thinking
5 min readAug 4, 2021

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Who is the greatest proponent of Disinformation today?

It can be seriously argued that the crown currently belongs to Joseph Mercola. What is truly clear is that if disinformation was an olympic sport, then he does indeed qualify for gold.

“Ah, but that just your biased opinion”, some might quip. If so, then I’m not alone. Here are other highly reputable sources taking this same stance as recently as one week ago:

Criticism of what he does is not simply opinion based. His constant stream of demonstrably false disinformation is by itself solid and rather robust evidence.

Who is Joseph Mercola?

He is basically a guy who uses fear to sell quackery so that he can reap $$$. He merits flagging up because right now he is very dangerous due to his opposition to the use of vaccines and promotion of alternative treatments that don’t work for COVID. Due to him, people have died, and many more will die.

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David Gamble
Science and Critical Thinking

Blogger and writer with a keen interest in science, skepticism, critical thinking, and many other weird and whacky topics.