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Can We Trust Wikipedia and Its Medical Skepticism?
Can We Trust Wikipedia and Its Medical Skepticism? Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Commentary Hour, August 2, 2018 It is not skepticism that is at fault for science's lack of movement into the future... It is fear, conservatism, and dogmatism. It is pseudoskepticism which clings to a scientifically disproved belief system, a triumvirate of [...]Skepticism and the New Scientific Inquisition
Skepticism and the New Scientific Inquisition Progressive Radio Network January 23 2019 It is my opinion that American emergency medicine is the finest in the world with the highest level of success of helping to save lives and improve conditions from stroke to heart attack as well as from operations, traumatic accidents and end stage [...]Wikipedia: A Roadmap to a Catastrophic Future
Wikipedia: A Roadmap to a Catastrophic Future Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 9, 2020 During the past 19 years Wikipedia has risen to the admirable status as the world’s most formidable and trusted encyclopedia to educate and inform the public about acceptable and unacceptable medical systems, therapies and interventions. Although there [...]Wikipedia Astroturfing to Discredit Energy Medicine and Psychology
Wikipedia Astroturfing to Discredit Energy Medicine and Psychology Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, November 26, 2019 In 2014, a heated exchange took place between Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales and the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology's President Dr. Debby Vajda. The internet war of words was the first instance revealing Wales' prejudiced [...]Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Holistic Healing
Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Holistic Healing By Gary Null and Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network February 13, 2019 From the mind of Jimmy Wales, to the alternative health community: “What we won’t do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of “true scientific discourse”. It isn’t.” One [...]The Promotion of Scientific Bias on Wikipedia
The Promotion of Scientific Bias on Wikipedia By Richard Gale, Neal Greenfield & Gary NullAmerica’s Medical Apartheid
America's Medical Apartheid Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network June 19, 2019 About a decade ago, my late colleague Dr. Martin Feldman and I were invited to be keynote speakers at a conference on anti-aging and alternative medicine in Chicago. The hall was packed with several thousand clinicians, physicians, medical professors, scientific researchers [...]Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad?
Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network April 5, 2019 The New York Times has given retired portrait photographer Susan Gerbic a bully pulpit to paint her “hobby” – Skepticism – as a benign, almost cutesy pushback against an epidemic of American [...]Wikipedia’s Violation of the Communications Decency Act
Wikipedia's Violation of the Communications Decency Act Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network February 13, 2020 Wikipedia is promoted as an “encyclopedia” and in an attempt to authenticate itself as such it compares itself to other general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs and gazetteers. Wikipedia states that it is not to be a resource for unverifiable material; [...]Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core?
Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core? By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network September 14, 2018 For some time, I’d heard rumors that Wikipedia was not the open-source knowledge utopia it claimed to be. Despite a comprehensive set of rules replete with checks and balances and a seemingly open democratic editing process, stories of pay-for-play editing, character [...]Weaponizing Wikipedia
Weaponizing Wikipedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, February 10, 2020 "It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved." -- W. Somerset Maugham "He who despises his own life is [...]Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side
Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side By Helen Buyniski Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website on the internet. It presents itself as a “people’s encyclopedia,” a neutral utopia in which anyone can edit an article in their area of expertise, adding and correcting facts to enhance the sum total of the world’s knowledge. In theory, [...]The Vaccine Deep State
The Vaccine Deep State Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network November 7, 2019 Who coined the term anti-vaccine or anti-vaxx? The derogatory term "anti-vaxxer," which has been championed by the media and the medical industry's experts who function as the media's talking heads, are merely people who question the efficacy and safety [...]Senior Wikipedia Editors Recommend that the Site Being Euthanized
Senior Wikipedia Editors Recommend that the Site Be Euthanized Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network November 22, 2019 Last year a senior administrator and editor on Wikipedia questioned the encyclopedia's usefulness and proposed that Wikipedia was "on its death bed and that euthanasia is the best option in this case." The editor, [...]Wikipedia’s Leading Abettor in Skepticism’s Pro-Industry Propaganda
Wikipedia's Leading Abettor in Skepticism’s Pro-Industry Propaganda Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD and Neal Greenfield, Esq. Progressive Radio Network, September 17, 2019 For all of Skepticism's animosity against climate change denialism, oddly this fringe faction within the scientific community consistently supports private corporate interests that contribute to the destruction of the environment and rising greenhouse [...]Energy Medicine, the New Paradigm to Displace the Medical Establishment
Energy Medicine, the New Paradigm to Displace the Medical Establishment Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, June 12, 2018 During the past several decades, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is shaping rapidly into a new medical paradigm to displace our now failing and defunct Science Based Medical (SBM) model, which [...]Wikipedia Fails Again: The Case of Misinformation about Curcumin
Wikipedia Fails Again: The Case of Misinformation about Curcumin Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network May 14, 2019 Wikipedia states, "Although thoroughly studied in laboratory and clinical studies, curcumin has no confirmed medical uses."[6] Wikipedia also cites a 2017 review of over 120 studies that disclaims any of curcumin's therapeutic effects.[7] or the moment we can [...]Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against
Medical Despotism, the AMA's and Wikipedia's Offensive Against Chiropractic Richard Gale & Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 30, 2018 "Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine mostly concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine. Proponents claim that such disorders affect general health via the nervous [...]Wikipedia Skeptics’ Crucifixion of Deepak Chopra
Wikipedia Skeptics' Crucifixion of Deepak Chopra Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, July 29, 2019 Every day tens of millions of Americans are ill, from cancer to dementia, cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes, mental disorders, etc. As bad as this massive human suffering is, Americans are also faced with uncertainty of any [...]Wikipedia: Where Narcissists and Sociopaths Are Always Welcome
Wikipedia: An Opinion: Where Narcissists and Sociopaths Are Always Welcome Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network August 22, 2019 In looking up information on alternative health issues using a legitimate, highly respected encyclopedia such as Encyclopedia Britannica we find a fair, balanced, and scholarly review of the available literature on topics such as [...]Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad?
Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network April 5, 2019 The New York Times has given retired portrait photographer Susan Gerbic a bully pulpit to paint her “hobby” – Skepticism – as [...]Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Ayurveda
Wikipedia's Hate Campaign Against Ayurveda Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network October 31, 2019 Alongside Traditional Chinese Medicine, Indian Ayurveda is one of the world's oldest medical systems still widely accepted and practiced today. It has managed to thrive and flourish for at least three millennia and has built up an enormous [...]Wikipedia: Dumb & Dumber About Fluoride
Wikipedia: Dumb and Dumber About Fluoridation Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 1, 2020 In the satirical black comedy film Dr. Strangelove there is the iconic scene when the rogue general Jack D Ripper, played by Sterling Hayden, tells Peter Sellers character, “Ever hear of the fluoridation of water? Do you [...]Should Wikipedia Be Trusted for HIV Retroviral Therapy?
Should Wikipedia Be Trusted for HIV Retroviral Therapy? David Crowe, Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Commentary Hour October 4, 2019 Wikipedia's entry for HIV prevention and treatment drug Zidovudine (ZDV), more commonly known as AZT (azidothymidine) and Retrovir, is largely a sanitized history about the discovery of by far the most important AIDS [...]Wikipedia Skeptics’ Mission to Suppress the Dissemination of Quality Health and Medical Studies
Wikipedia Skeptics’ Mission to Suppress the Dissemination of Quality Health and Medical Studies By Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network August 19, 2019 Skeptics place an enormous amount of importance in the scientific research that appears in peer-reviewed publications. At the same time it is correctly critical of the quality of large [...]Wikipedia: J’accuse
Wikipedia: J’accuse By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network November 7, 2018 Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world. It’s free, it’s educational, and it’s democratic – what’s not to like? The average user has no reason to think the material it publishes is anything but true, and it has become the [...]Wikipedia’s Vaccination Bias
Wikipedia's Vaccination Bias Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network June 25, 2019 The US, and indeed many other nations around the world, is witnessing a contentious debate about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. The forces are lining up over whether vaccination should be mandated by government or whether citizens have civil rights and freedom [...]STEPHEN BARRETT, THE AMA & WIKIPEDIA’S ASSAULT AGAINST CHIROPRACTIC
Stephen Barrett, The AMA & Wikipedia’s Assault Against Chiropractic Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network April 3, 2019 Ever since its inception in the 1890s, Chiropractic medicine has been falsely charged by the medical establishment as pseudoscience and quackery. This is the version of the story Wikipedia distorts and propagates. Chiropractic is one [...]Modern Skepticism: Western Civilization’s Scientific Wahhabism
Modern Skepticism: Western Civilization's Scientific Wahhabism Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network October 25, 2019 The history of scientific and medical research is pervaded with examples of denigration and suppression by a dominant scientific elite. In the absence of dissent, innovation and vision that promises progress and reform, a population succumbs to [...]Why Jimmy Wales’ Personal Philosophy Should Discredit Wikipedia’s Trustworthiness
Why Jimmy Wales’ Personal Philosophy Should Discredit Wikipedia's Trustworthiness Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, October 15, 2019 When we think about the most powerful and influential voices in the world, we more often than not recognize presidents, statespersons, leading social reformers, and great visionaries. But rarely would Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales [...]Reasons to Walk Away from Wickedpedia
Reasons to Walk Away from Wickedpedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, December 23, 2019 It is that time of year for seasonal acts of compassion, kindness and giving. Again Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales has reached out to tens of millions of Wikipedia users to solicit donations to keep the Wikimedia Foundation's [...]Wikipedia: The Internet’s Devil’s Island.
Wikipedia: The Internet's Devil's Island. Richard Gale and Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 30, 2019 Institutional incarceration, isolation under torture -- physical and/or psychological -- takes many forms and shapes. During the course of modern European history, perhaps the most notorious and immoral prison was Devil's Island, a French penal colony located on [...]Why Does Wikipedia Recommend Fluoride?
Why Does Wikipedia Recommend Fluoride? By Helen Buyniski and Gary Null, Ph. D. Progressive Radio Network February 28, 2019 Wikipedia is a staunch defender of water fluoridation. Parroting the statements of arch-Skeptic Stephen Barrett, its editors sacrifice reams of scientific data to push the scientifically-debunked theories of those who would put this proven neurotoxin in [...]Why does Wikipedia want to deprive you of Acupuncture?
Why does Wikipedia want to deprive you of Acupuncture? Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, June 25, 2018 Although it is completely ignored by the mainstream media, all natural and alternative medical philosophy and therapies remain under constant attack in the United States, as well as in the UK, France, Canada, Australia and [...]Wikipedia- The Flawed Non-Encyclopedia
Wikipedia: The Flawed Non-Encyclopedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, May 13, 2020 At this very moment, there are highly respected physicians, epidemiologists, medical biostaticians, forensic experts and other scientists coming forth to voice concerns over the information being disseminated in the mainstream media about the COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases their [...]Debunking Wikipedia’s Warrior Against Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Debunking Wikipedia's Warrior Against Complementary and Alternative Medicine Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD, Victoria Theophanis Progressive Radio Network February 26, 2020 Rarely do we question the integrity, veracity and hidden motivations of an expert speaking or writing on any given topic. Patients rarely question the diagnosis or prescribed treatment of their cardiologist, oncologist, urologist, etc. [...]Wikipedia’s Vaccination Bias
Wikipedia's Vaccination Bias Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network June 25, 2019 The US, and indeed many other nations around the world, is witnessing a contentious debate about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. The forces are lining up over whether vaccination should be mandated by government or whether citizens have civil rights and freedom [...]Wikipedia: the New Inquisition
Wikipedia: the New Inquisition By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network January 14, 2019 Consider: you are given a serious diagnosis – cancer, dementia, multiple sclerosis – and your doctor runs you through the standard treatment protocol. It fails to reverse or cure the condition, leaving you hundreds of thousands of dollars poorer and sicker. [...]Google and Wikipedia: The Internet’s Voice for the Corporate Deep State
Google and Wikipedia: The Internet's Voice for the Corporate Deep State Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Commentary Hour October 9, 2019 Google is undoubtedly the single most powerful IT corporation without second in the world. The firm possesses the world's most popular search engine, which has been given Congressional protection to abide by [...]Weaponizing Wikipedia
Weaponizing Wikipedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, February 10, 2020 "It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved." -- W. Somerset Maugham "He who despises his own life is [...]The Gary Null Show – Science Based Medicine: A Swamp of Medical Buffoonery – 02.06.20
Science Based Medicine: A Swamp of Medical Buffoonery Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network February 6, 2020 Every religion, large institution, political party and scientific and social discipline has its lunatic fringe. Within the practice of medicine in the 21st century the aberrant margins are the far extremes of alternative medical beliefs and the small clique [...]Wikipedia: a Web of Deception
Wikipedia: a Web of Deception By Helen Buyniski and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network August 13, 2013 Wikipedia wants us to believe the entries in its “encyclopedia” are truthful, fair, and balanced. However, a comprehensive analysisofits nutritional articles reveals a plethora of factual inconsistencies and a clear and present bias against the very idea of [...]Quackwatch’s Hatred of Acupuncture.
Quackwatch’s Hatred of Acupuncture Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network November 18, 2019 The author of the Quackwatch entry for Acupuncture entitled “Be Wary of Acupuncture, Qigong and Chinese Medicine” is Quackwatch founder Stephen Barrett. It represents Quackwatch’s official position on acupuncture that has served the purposes of Skeptic organizations, including Skeptic [...]Wikipedia: the Modern Delphic Oracle
Wikipedia: the Modern Delphic Oracle By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network September 25, 2018 Can we trust Wikipedia as an unbiased source of truth? Can we at least offer it the same trust we place in our news media?The country is experiencing a crisis of confidence. Establishment credibility is collapsing all around us. We know [...]Wikipedia: Our New Technological McCarthyism, Part Two
Wikipedia- Our New Technological McCarthyism Pt2 Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network May 1, 2018 In Part One, we discussed the threats social media technology poses to a healthy and educated populace, the scientist cult of Skepticism and its extremist medical wing, and the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a leading promulgator for Skepticism's [...]Wikipedia Misinformation and Prejudice: Case Examples of Drs. Deepak Chopra and Gary Null
Wikipedia Misinformation and Prejudice: Case Examples of Drs Deepak Chopra and Gary Null Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network September 26, 2019 Recently, when the Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah she characterized the smell of New York City as “indescribable.” This is a perfect malapropism to describe [...]Wikipedia’s Vaccine Propaganda Regime
Wikipedia's Vaccine Propaganda Regime Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network July 12, 2019 During the past year there has been a deliberate assault on medical sanity by the Silicon Valley's internet giants and popular social media platforms to abolish and censor voices and websites challenging the orthodoxy of the CDC's vaccination policies. [...]Wikipedia’s Culture of Editorial Sadism
Wikipedia's Culture of Editorial Sadism Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, June 17, 2020 Perhaps the greatest farce in the modern history of technology is the perception of Wikipedia as a legitimate encyclopedia. It has none of the qualifications as such but has all of the characteristics of a compromised propaganda machine [...]Wikipedia Watch
Dear Holistic Health Advocate, Medical professionals and practitioners of alternative medical therapies are by now fully aware that the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been exceedingly antagonistic against their professions and even entire medical systems that are regarded as “natural” or non-conventional. This disturbing anti-health trend, which continues to worsen, can be traced back at least [...]Why you shouldn’t trust Wikipedia: Propagandists for a Broken Establishment
Why you shouldn’t trust Wikipedia By Gary Null & Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network April 4, 2019 Science, whether in academia or in the mainstream media, television or popular online outlets, is the rarefied domain of “experts,” we are told. To prove they are experts, the gatekeepers of the Academy present a pedigreed background, bristling [...]Wikipedia: Our New Technological McCarthyism, Part 1
Wikipedia: Our New Technological McCarthyism Pt 1 Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 3, 2018 Today, the internet, often thought of as our world's "final frontier" for free thinkers and the flow and exchange of ideas and information, is seriously ill. It has been systemically infected by ideological viruses, memes of information [...]Be Skeptical of Wikipedia Skeptics
Be Skeptical of Wikipedia Skeptics Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network July 23, 2019 As we have stated on many occasions in previous investigative reports, often it is not what Skeptics include on Wikipedia pages that raise concerns for alarm; equally important are the solid facts that are omitted, removed and/or censored. [...]WICKED, WICKED WIKIPEDIA: THE CORRUPTION AND COLLAPSE OF THE LEGENDARY PEOPLE’S ENCYCLOPEDIA. Richard Gale and Gary Null
Wicked, Wicked Wikipedia: The Corruption And Collapse Of The Legendary People’s Encyclopedia. Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network September 18, 2018 It is time to take a serious, critical look at Wikipedia and its mission. Is it everything it purports to be as an objective encyclopedic source of knowledge or just another anti-democratic [...]Modern Skepticism: An Authentic Pseudoscience of Irrational Deception
Modern Skepticism: An Authentic Pseudoscience of Irrational Deception Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network December 10, 2019 Many of us working in healthcare professions believe that medical science, in theory,is at a transformative moment. Hundreds of thousands of scientists and physicians worldwide are conducting basic and applied research into the mechanisms for [...]Wikipedia’s Culture of Character Assassination: The Case of Dr. Dean Radin
Wikipedia’s Culture of Character Assassination: The Case of Dr. Dean Radin Richard Gale and Gary Null, PhD Progressive Commentary Hour October 1, 2018 Many therapeutic modalities in natural and non-conventional medicine share principles in common with parapsychology. This is particularly true of Mind-Body medicine, the power of the mind to initiate and facilitate healing. Some [...]Quackwatch’s Conspiratorial Theory Against Alternative Medicine
Quackwatch’s Conspiratorial Theory Against Alternative Medicine Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network August 15, 2019 A trend that is increasingly becoming accepted in mainstream, conventional medicine has been the acceptance of complementary and alternative medical theories and practices. Since 1997, Quackwatch has been the nation’s leading voice opposing the growing popularity in [...]Wikipedia’s Assault on Scientific Progress: The Case of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, October 10, 2018
Wikipedia’s Assault on Scientific Progress: The Case of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network October 10, 2018 Wikipedia, the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, is supposed to be an objective source of knowledge. Every entry is expected to be researched and written with a sense of balance, fairness, and accuracy and supported with [...]Stephen Barrett: Wikipedia’s Agent Provacateur Against Natural Medicine
Stephen Barrett: Wikipedia’s Agent Provacateur Against Natural Medicine Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network April 1, 2019 During the past year, we have released 24 separate investigative stories about Wikipedia, its co-founder Jimmy Wales, and the fringe movement of Skeptics who have gained monopolistic editorial control over Wikipedia entries dealing with natural health, nutrition and complementary [...]Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side
Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side By Helen Buyniski Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website on the internet. It presents itself as a “people’s encyclopedia,” a neutral utopia in which anyone can edit an article in their area of expertise, adding and correcting facts to enhance the sum total of the world’s knowledge. In [...]Chinese Botanical Medicine: Wikipedia Claims It is Fake, We are Certain it is Real.
Chinese Botanical Medicine: Wikipedia Claims It is Fake, We are Certain it is Real. Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, July 10, 2018 Modern conventional medicine has increasingly become a culture of scientific and historical denialism. Although portending to be an objective discipline of consistent progress, the medical establishment [...]Wikipedia’s Disdain Towards Alternative Medical Experts: The Case of Naturopathy
Wikipedia's Disdain Towards Alternative Medical Experts: The Case of Naturopathy Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, December 3, 2019 Americans are increasingly turning to Complementary and Alternative Medical (CAM) systems for their healthcare needs. This trend has been underway for several decades. This has been perceived as competition by the medical establishment. [...]Wikipedia is not an Encyclopedia
Wikipedia is not an Encyclopedia By Neal S. Greenfield, Esq. What if there were ways for people to live happier and healthy lives that would enrich the lives of millions? What is there was valuable information about the dangers of putting toxic substances into your body that appear all around us, in our environment and [...]The Illegitimacy of Quackwatch’s Health Bias
The Illegitimacy of Quackwatch's Health Bias Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network December 31, 2019 To the average person who is seeking high quality and reliable peer-reviewed research on any given medical topic, a Google search takes you more often than not immediately to Wikipedia. However, if the information you seek concerns [...]Slaying Homeopathy and Americans’ Freedom of Health Choices
Slaying Homeopathy and Americans' Freedom of Health Choices Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 9, 2018 With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort and worry; the first instinct is to abolish these painful sensations. First principle: any explanation is better than none.... The search for causes is thus [...]Quackwatch’s Promotion of Psychiatric Propaganda
Quackwatch's Promotion of Psychiatric Propaganda Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network February 3, 2020 Every respectable journalist, especially investigative reporters, have multiple sources for stories they are working on. Major news outlets and news papers, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and television news networks will also have independent fact [...]Wikipedia, Stephen Barrett, and Sweet Suicide
Wikipedia, Stephen Barrett, and Sweet Suicide By Gary Null PhD and Amy Mitura Progressive Radio Network August 27, 2019 Millions of people, throughout the world, after decades of consuming an American-style diet, are starting to pay attention to what they are putting into their bodies. Finally, there is a conscious questioning of the safety the [...]Homeopathy: How Can Wikipedia Get It So Wrong?
Homeopathy: How Can Wikipedia Get It So Wrong? By Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD., Amy Mitura, Esq., Neal Greenfield, Esq. Progressive Radio Network August 29, 2019 In 2014, Dana Ullman, who is regarded as America’s leading advocate for homeopathy and an author and publisher of over 35 books about this alternative medical system, bumped into [...]Why Does Wikipedia Want to Destroy Deepak Chopra?
Why Does Wikipedia Want to Destroy Deepak Chopra? Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network September 11, 2019 For the past 40 years, one of the most prominent and important voices for the mind-body medical movement has been Dr. Deepak Chopra. Aside from his prolific publishing career with over 80 books and a [...]Wikipedia Skeptics Attack on Truth in Journalism
Wikipedia Skeptics Attack on Truth in Journalism Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD and Neal Greenfield, Esq. Progressive Radio Network, September 5, 2019 There are thousands of American journalists. The public expects them to be independent of political, financial and ideological biases. Indeed there are multiple examples. But there are very few journalists in the mainstream [...]Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against Chiropractic
Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against Chiropractic Medical Despotism, the AMA's and Wikipedia's Offensive Against Chiropractic Richard Gale & Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 30, 2018 "Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine mostly concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine. Proponents claim [...]Medical Skepticism: Today’s Scientific Cultural Disease
Medical Skepticism: Our Scientific Cultural Disease Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, August 5, 2019 Modern day Skepticism is one of those annoying contagions that won't go away. It is rather like a persistent Candida yeast infection. It is painful to common sense. Worse, Skepticism flares up when you least expect it. [...]Wikipedia’s Skeptical Assault on Botanical Medicine
Wikipedia's Skeptical Assault on Botanical Medicine Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network May 18, 2018 Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales claims to hold high standards of objectivity and balance in the content of the online encyclopedia and the integrity of his volunteer army of editors. Indeed this is largely true; except when it comes [...]A Marriage Made in Hell: Militant Atheism, Scientism, Wikipedia and Eugenics
A Marriage Made in Hell: Militant Atheism, Scientism, Wikipedia and Eugenics Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network February 21, 2020 The many apparent discoveries and successes in science and medicine have awarded these advances with an authority that we far too often accept without question. Skepticism is a necessary and healthy faculty. [...]Wikipedia: Big Pharma’s Propaganda Machine
Wikipedia: Big Pharma’s Propaganda Machine Progressive Radio Network March 28, 2019 Every day, hundreds of millions if not billions of people worldwide wake up suffering from various maladies. From heart disease, depression, cancer, diabetes, obesity, inflammatory conditions and the ravages of aging, including dementia, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s. In the US and Western Europe, the [...]Wikipedia’s Culture of Institutional Bias
Wikipedia's Culture of Institutional Bias Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network June 11, 2019 Weekly, millions of people Google their concerns about their health and a large variety of illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, etc. They expect, with speed and accuracy, to find the current scientifically based and clinically [...]WIKIPEDIA: SUPPORTING THE DARK SIDE OF MEDICINE?
Wikipedia: Supporting The Dark Side Of Medicine? By Helen Buyniski and Gary Null, PhD. Progressive Radio Network January 22, 2019 Despite what doctors may tell their patients, medicine is not infallible. Bad treatments and dangerous drugs have persisted as universally-accepted medical practices for long periods of time, far beyond when people began to catch on [...]
Wikipedia’s Culture of Editorial Sadism
Wikipedia's Culture of Editorial Sadism Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, June 17, 2020 Perhaps the greatest farce in the modern history of technology is the perception of Wikipedia as a legitimate encyclopedia. It has none of the qualifications as such but has all of the characteristics of a compromised propaganda machine [...]Weaponizing Wikipedia
Weaponizing Wikipedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, February 10, 2020 "It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved." -- W. Somerset Maugham "He who despises his own life is [...]Wikipedia, Stephen Barrett, and Sweet Suicide
Wikipedia, Stephen Barrett, and Sweet Suicide By Gary Null PhD and Amy Mitura Progressive Radio Network August 27, 2019 Millions of people, throughout the world, after decades of consuming an American-style diet, are starting to pay attention to what they are putting into their bodies. Finally, there is a conscious questioning of the safety the [...]Wikipedia Misinformation and Prejudice: Case Examples of Drs. Deepak Chopra and Gary Null
Wikipedia Misinformation and Prejudice: Case Examples of Drs Deepak Chopra and Gary Null Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network September 26, 2019 Recently, when the Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah she characterized the smell of New York City as “indescribable.” This is a perfect malapropism to describe [...]Wikipedia: the Modern Delphic Oracle
Wikipedia: the Modern Delphic Oracle By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network September 25, 2018 Can we trust Wikipedia as an unbiased source of truth? Can we at least offer it the same trust we place in our news media?The country is experiencing a crisis of confidence. Establishment credibility is collapsing all around us. We know [...]Wikipedia’s Assault on Scientific Progress: The Case of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, October 10, 2018
Wikipedia’s Assault on Scientific Progress: The Case of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network October 10, 2018 Wikipedia, the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, is supposed to be an objective source of knowledge. Every entry is expected to be researched and written with a sense of balance, fairness, and accuracy and supported with [...]Wikipedia’s Skeptical Assault on Botanical Medicine
Wikipedia's Skeptical Assault on Botanical Medicine Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network May 18, 2018 Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales claims to hold high standards of objectivity and balance in the content of the online encyclopedia and the integrity of his volunteer army of editors. Indeed this is largely true; except when it comes [...]WIKIPEDIA: SUPPORTING THE DARK SIDE OF MEDICINE?
Wikipedia: Supporting The Dark Side Of Medicine? By Helen Buyniski and Gary Null, PhD. Progressive Radio Network January 22, 2019 Despite what doctors may tell their patients, medicine is not infallible. Bad treatments and dangerous drugs have persisted as universally-accepted medical practices for long periods of time, far beyond when people began to catch on [...]Senior Wikipedia Editors Recommend that the Site Being Euthanized
Senior Wikipedia Editors Recommend that the Site Be Euthanized Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network November 22, 2019 Last year a senior administrator and editor on Wikipedia questioned the encyclopedia's usefulness and proposed that Wikipedia was "on its death bed and that euthanasia is the best option in this case." The editor, [...]Wikipedia’s Violation of the Communications Decency Act
Wikipedia's Violation of the Communications Decency Act Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network February 13, 2020 Wikipedia is promoted as an “encyclopedia” and in an attempt to authenticate itself as such it compares itself to other general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs and gazetteers. Wikipedia states that it is not to be a resource for unverifiable material; [...]Wikipedia Astroturfing to Discredit Energy Medicine and Psychology
Wikipedia Astroturfing to Discredit Energy Medicine and Psychology Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, November 26, 2019 In 2014, a heated exchange took place between Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales and the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology's President Dr. Debby Vajda. The internet war of words was the first instance revealing Wales' prejudiced [...]Homeopathy: How Can Wikipedia Get It So Wrong?
Homeopathy: How Can Wikipedia Get It So Wrong? By Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD., Amy Mitura, Esq., Neal Greenfield, Esq. Progressive Radio Network August 29, 2019 In 2014, Dana Ullman, who is regarded as America’s leading advocate for homeopathy and an author and publisher of over 35 books about this alternative medical system, bumped into [...]Reasons to Walk Away from Wickedpedia
Reasons to Walk Away from Wickedpedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, December 23, 2019 It is that time of year for seasonal acts of compassion, kindness and giving. Again Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales has reached out to tens of millions of Wikipedia users to solicit donations to keep the Wikimedia Foundation's [...]Google and Wikipedia: The Internet’s Voice for the Corporate Deep State
Google and Wikipedia: The Internet's Voice for the Corporate Deep State Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Commentary Hour October 9, 2019 Google is undoubtedly the single most powerful IT corporation without second in the world. The firm possesses the world's most popular search engine, which has been given Congressional protection to abide by [...]Why Does Wikipedia Recommend Fluoride?
Why Does Wikipedia Recommend Fluoride? By Helen Buyniski and Gary Null, Ph. D. Progressive Radio Network February 28, 2019 Wikipedia is a staunch defender of water fluoridation. Parroting the statements of arch-Skeptic Stephen Barrett, its editors sacrifice reams of scientific data to push the scientifically-debunked theories of those who would put this proven neurotoxin in [...]America’s Medical Apartheid
America's Medical Apartheid Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network June 19, 2019 About a decade ago, my late colleague Dr. Martin Feldman and I were invited to be keynote speakers at a conference on anti-aging and alternative medicine in Chicago. The hall was packed with several thousand clinicians, physicians, medical professors, scientific researchers [...]Can We Trust Wikipedia and Its Medical Skepticism?
Can We Trust Wikipedia and Its Medical Skepticism? Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Commentary Hour, August 2, 2018 It is not skepticism that is at fault for science's lack of movement into the future... It is fear, conservatism, and dogmatism. It is pseudoskepticism which clings to a scientifically disproved belief system, a triumvirate of [...]Wikipedia Skeptics’ Mission to Suppress the Dissemination of Quality Health and Medical Studies
Wikipedia Skeptics’ Mission to Suppress the Dissemination of Quality Health and Medical Studies By Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network August 19, 2019 Skeptics place an enormous amount of importance in the scientific research that appears in peer-reviewed publications. At the same time it is correctly critical of the quality of large [...]Wikipedia’s Disdain Towards Alternative Medical Experts: The Case of Naturopathy
Wikipedia's Disdain Towards Alternative Medical Experts: The Case of Naturopathy Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, December 3, 2019 Americans are increasingly turning to Complementary and Alternative Medical (CAM) systems for their healthcare needs. This trend has been underway for several decades. This has been perceived as competition by the medical establishment. [...]The Promotion of Scientific Bias on Wikipedia
The Promotion of Scientific Bias on Wikipedia By Richard Gale, Neal Greenfield & Gary NullSTEPHEN BARRETT, THE AMA & WIKIPEDIA’S ASSAULT AGAINST CHIROPRACTIC
Stephen Barrett, The AMA & Wikipedia’s Assault Against Chiropractic Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network April 3, 2019 Ever since its inception in the 1890s, Chiropractic medicine has been falsely charged by the medical establishment as pseudoscience and quackery. This is the version of the story Wikipedia distorts and propagates. Chiropractic is one [...]Wikipedia: The Internet’s Devil’s Island.
Wikipedia: The Internet's Devil's Island. Richard Gale and Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 30, 2019 Institutional incarceration, isolation under torture -- physical and/or psychological -- takes many forms and shapes. During the course of modern European history, perhaps the most notorious and immoral prison was Devil's Island, a French penal colony located on [...]Wikipedia’s Vaccination Bias
Wikipedia's Vaccination Bias Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network June 25, 2019 The US, and indeed many other nations around the world, is witnessing a contentious debate about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. The forces are lining up over whether vaccination should be mandated by government or whether citizens have civil rights and freedom [...]Wikipedia: Where Narcissists and Sociopaths Are Always Welcome
Wikipedia: An Opinion: Where Narcissists and Sociopaths Are Always Welcome Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network August 22, 2019 In looking up information on alternative health issues using a legitimate, highly respected encyclopedia such as Encyclopedia Britannica we find a fair, balanced, and scholarly review of the available literature on topics such as [...]Wikipedia’s Culture of Character Assassination: The Case of Dr. Dean Radin
Wikipedia’s Culture of Character Assassination: The Case of Dr. Dean Radin Richard Gale and Gary Null, PhD Progressive Commentary Hour October 1, 2018 Many therapeutic modalities in natural and non-conventional medicine share principles in common with parapsychology. This is particularly true of Mind-Body medicine, the power of the mind to initiate and facilitate healing. Some [...]Stephen Barrett: Wikipedia’s Agent Provacateur Against Natural Medicine
Stephen Barrett: Wikipedia’s Agent Provacateur Against Natural Medicine Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network April 1, 2019 During the past year, we have released 24 separate investigative stories about Wikipedia, its co-founder Jimmy Wales, and the fringe movement of Skeptics who have gained monopolistic editorial control over Wikipedia entries dealing with natural health, nutrition and complementary [...]Quackwatch’s Conspiratorial Theory Against Alternative Medicine
Quackwatch’s Conspiratorial Theory Against Alternative Medicine Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network August 15, 2019 A trend that is increasingly becoming accepted in mainstream, conventional medicine has been the acceptance of complementary and alternative medical theories and practices. Since 1997, Quackwatch has been the nation’s leading voice opposing the growing popularity in [...]Wikipedia- The Flawed Non-Encyclopedia
Wikipedia: The Flawed Non-Encyclopedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, May 13, 2020 At this very moment, there are highly respected physicians, epidemiologists, medical biostaticians, forensic experts and other scientists coming forth to voice concerns over the information being disseminated in the mainstream media about the COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases their [...]Why does Wikipedia want to deprive you of Acupuncture?
Why does Wikipedia want to deprive you of Acupuncture? Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, June 25, 2018 Although it is completely ignored by the mainstream media, all natural and alternative medical philosophy and therapies remain under constant attack in the United States, as well as in the UK, France, Canada, Australia and [...]Modern Skepticism: Western Civilization’s Scientific Wahhabism
Modern Skepticism: Western Civilization's Scientific Wahhabism Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network October 25, 2019 The history of scientific and medical research is pervaded with examples of denigration and suppression by a dominant scientific elite. In the absence of dissent, innovation and vision that promises progress and reform, a population succumbs to [...]Wikipedia: Dumb & Dumber About Fluoride
Wikipedia: Dumb and Dumber About Fluoridation Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 1, 2020 In the satirical black comedy film Dr. Strangelove there is the iconic scene when the rogue general Jack D Ripper, played by Sterling Hayden, tells Peter Sellers character, “Ever hear of the fluoridation of water? Do you [...]WICKED, WICKED WIKIPEDIA: THE CORRUPTION AND COLLAPSE OF THE LEGENDARY PEOPLE’S ENCYCLOPEDIA. Richard Gale and Gary Null
Wicked, Wicked Wikipedia: The Corruption And Collapse Of The Legendary People’s Encyclopedia. Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network September 18, 2018 It is time to take a serious, critical look at Wikipedia and its mission. Is it everything it purports to be as an objective encyclopedic source of knowledge or just another anti-democratic [...]Wikipedia: Big Pharma’s Propaganda Machine
Wikipedia: Big Pharma’s Propaganda Machine Progressive Radio Network March 28, 2019 Every day, hundreds of millions if not billions of people worldwide wake up suffering from various maladies. From heart disease, depression, cancer, diabetes, obesity, inflammatory conditions and the ravages of aging, including dementia, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s. In the US and Western Europe, the [...]Wikipedia’s Vaccination Bias
Wikipedia's Vaccination Bias Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network June 25, 2019 The US, and indeed many other nations around the world, is witnessing a contentious debate about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. The forces are lining up over whether vaccination should be mandated by government or whether citizens have civil rights and freedom [...]Wikipedia: Our New Technological McCarthyism, Part 1
Wikipedia: Our New Technological McCarthyism Pt 1 Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 3, 2018 Today, the internet, often thought of as our world's "final frontier" for free thinkers and the flow and exchange of ideas and information, is seriously ill. It has been systemically infected by ideological viruses, memes of information [...]Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad?
Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network April 5, 2019 The New York Times has given retired portrait photographer Susan Gerbic a bully pulpit to paint her “hobby” – Skepticism – as a benign, almost cutesy pushback against an epidemic of American [...]Why Does Wikipedia Want to Destroy Deepak Chopra?
Why Does Wikipedia Want to Destroy Deepak Chopra? Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network September 11, 2019 For the past 40 years, one of the most prominent and important voices for the mind-body medical movement has been Dr. Deepak Chopra. Aside from his prolific publishing career with over 80 books and a [...]Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side
Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side By Helen Buyniski Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website on the internet. It presents itself as a “people’s encyclopedia,” a neutral utopia in which anyone can edit an article in their area of expertise, adding and correcting facts to enhance the sum total of the world’s knowledge. In [...]Modern Skepticism: An Authentic Pseudoscience of Irrational Deception
Modern Skepticism: An Authentic Pseudoscience of Irrational Deception Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network December 10, 2019 Many of us working in healthcare professions believe that medical science, in theory,is at a transformative moment. Hundreds of thousands of scientists and physicians worldwide are conducting basic and applied research into the mechanisms for [...]Quackwatch’s Promotion of Psychiatric Propaganda
Quackwatch's Promotion of Psychiatric Propaganda Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network February 3, 2020 Every respectable journalist, especially investigative reporters, have multiple sources for stories they are working on. Major news outlets and news papers, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and television news networks will also have independent fact [...]Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Holistic Healing
Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Holistic Healing By Gary Null and Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network February 13, 2019 From the mind of Jimmy Wales, to the alternative health community: “What we won’t do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of “true scientific discourse”. It isn’t.” One [...]Medical Skepticism: Today’s Scientific Cultural Disease
Medical Skepticism: Our Scientific Cultural Disease Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, August 5, 2019 Modern day Skepticism is one of those annoying contagions that won't go away. It is rather like a persistent Candida yeast infection. It is painful to common sense. Worse, Skepticism flares up when you least expect it. [...]Energy Medicine, the New Paradigm to Displace the Medical Establishment
Energy Medicine, the New Paradigm to Displace the Medical Establishment Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, June 12, 2018 During the past several decades, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is shaping rapidly into a new medical paradigm to displace our now failing and defunct Science Based Medical (SBM) model, which [...]Wikipedia: J’accuse
Wikipedia: J’accuse By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network November 7, 2018 Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world. It’s free, it’s educational, and it’s democratic – what’s not to like? The average user has no reason to think the material it publishes is anything but true, and it has become the [...]Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core?
Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core? By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network September 14, 2018 For some time, I’d heard rumors that Wikipedia was not the open-source knowledge utopia it claimed to be. Despite a comprehensive set of rules replete with checks and balances and a seemingly open democratic editing process, stories of pay-for-play editing, character [...]Weaponizing Wikipedia
Weaponizing Wikipedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, February 10, 2020 "It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved." -- W. Somerset Maugham "He who despises his own life is [...]Wikipedia Watch
Dear Holistic Health Advocate, Medical professionals and practitioners of alternative medical therapies are by now fully aware that the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been exceedingly antagonistic against their professions and even entire medical systems that are regarded as “natural” or non-conventional. This disturbing anti-health trend, which continues to worsen, can be traced back at least [...]A Marriage Made in Hell: Militant Atheism, Scientism, Wikipedia and Eugenics
A Marriage Made in Hell: Militant Atheism, Scientism, Wikipedia and Eugenics Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network February 21, 2020 The many apparent discoveries and successes in science and medicine have awarded these advances with an authority that we far too often accept without question. Skepticism is a necessary and healthy faculty. [...]Wikipedia: a Web of Deception
Wikipedia: a Web of Deception By Helen Buyniski and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network August 13, 2013 Wikipedia wants us to believe the entries in its “encyclopedia” are truthful, fair, and balanced. However, a comprehensive analysisofits nutritional articles reveals a plethora of factual inconsistencies and a clear and present bias against the very idea of [...]Wikipedia is not an Encyclopedia
Wikipedia is not an Encyclopedia By Neal S. Greenfield, Esq. What if there were ways for people to live happier and healthy lives that would enrich the lives of millions? What is there was valuable information about the dangers of putting toxic substances into your body that appear all around us, in our environment and [...]Wikipedia’s Vaccine Propaganda Regime
Wikipedia's Vaccine Propaganda Regime Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network July 12, 2019 During the past year there has been a deliberate assault on medical sanity by the Silicon Valley's internet giants and popular social media platforms to abolish and censor voices and websites challenging the orthodoxy of the CDC's vaccination policies. [...]Wikipedia: A Roadmap to a Catastrophic Future
Wikipedia: A Roadmap to a Catastrophic Future Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 9, 2020 During the past 19 years Wikipedia has risen to the admirable status as the world’s most formidable and trusted encyclopedia to educate and inform the public about acceptable and unacceptable medical systems, therapies and interventions. Although there [...]Chinese Botanical Medicine: Wikipedia Claims It is Fake, We are Certain it is Real.
Chinese Botanical Medicine: Wikipedia Claims It is Fake, We are Certain it is Real. Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, July 10, 2018 Modern conventional medicine has increasingly become a culture of scientific and historical denialism. Although portending to be an objective discipline of consistent progress, the medical establishment [...]Wikipedia: the New Inquisition
Wikipedia: the New Inquisition By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network January 14, 2019 Consider: you are given a serious diagnosis – cancer, dementia, multiple sclerosis – and your doctor runs you through the standard treatment protocol. It fails to reverse or cure the condition, leaving you hundreds of thousands of dollars poorer and sicker. [...]The Vaccine Deep State
The Vaccine Deep State Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network November 7, 2019 Who coined the term anti-vaccine or anti-vaxx? The derogatory term "anti-vaxxer," which has been championed by the media and the medical industry's experts who function as the media's talking heads, are merely people who question the efficacy and safety [...]Skepticism and the New Scientific Inquisition
Skepticism and the New Scientific Inquisition Progressive Radio Network January 23 2019 It is my opinion that American emergency medicine is the finest in the world with the highest level of success of helping to save lives and improve conditions from stroke to heart attack as well as from operations, traumatic accidents and end stage [...]Wikipedia Skeptics Attack on Truth in Journalism
Wikipedia Skeptics Attack on Truth in Journalism Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD and Neal Greenfield, Esq. Progressive Radio Network, September 5, 2019 There are thousands of American journalists. The public expects them to be independent of political, financial and ideological biases. Indeed there are multiple examples. But there are very few journalists in the mainstream [...]Wikipedia’s Culture of Institutional Bias
Wikipedia's Culture of Institutional Bias Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network June 11, 2019 Weekly, millions of people Google their concerns about their health and a large variety of illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, etc. They expect, with speed and accuracy, to find the current scientifically based and clinically [...]Wikipedia Skeptics’ Crucifixion of Deepak Chopra
Wikipedia Skeptics' Crucifixion of Deepak Chopra Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, July 29, 2019 Every day tens of millions of Americans are ill, from cancer to dementia, cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes, mental disorders, etc. As bad as this massive human suffering is, Americans are also faced with uncertainty of any [...]Should Wikipedia Be Trusted for HIV Retroviral Therapy?
Should Wikipedia Be Trusted for HIV Retroviral Therapy? David Crowe, Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Commentary Hour October 4, 2019 Wikipedia's entry for HIV prevention and treatment drug Zidovudine (ZDV), more commonly known as AZT (azidothymidine) and Retrovir, is largely a sanitized history about the discovery of by far the most important AIDS [...]Quackwatch’s Hatred of Acupuncture.
Quackwatch’s Hatred of Acupuncture Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network November 18, 2019 The author of the Quackwatch entry for Acupuncture entitled “Be Wary of Acupuncture, Qigong and Chinese Medicine” is Quackwatch founder Stephen Barrett. It represents Quackwatch’s official position on acupuncture that has served the purposes of Skeptic organizations, including Skeptic [...]Why Jimmy Wales’ Personal Philosophy Should Discredit Wikipedia’s Trustworthiness
Why Jimmy Wales’ Personal Philosophy Should Discredit Wikipedia's Trustworthiness Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, October 15, 2019 When we think about the most powerful and influential voices in the world, we more often than not recognize presidents, statespersons, leading social reformers, and great visionaries. But rarely would Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales [...]The Illegitimacy of Quackwatch’s Health Bias
The Illegitimacy of Quackwatch's Health Bias Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network December 31, 2019 To the average person who is seeking high quality and reliable peer-reviewed research on any given medical topic, a Google search takes you more often than not immediately to Wikipedia. However, if the information you seek concerns [...]Be Skeptical of Wikipedia Skeptics
Be Skeptical of Wikipedia Skeptics Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network July 23, 2019 As we have stated on many occasions in previous investigative reports, often it is not what Skeptics include on Wikipedia pages that raise concerns for alarm; equally important are the solid facts that are omitted, removed and/or censored. [...]Why you shouldn’t trust Wikipedia: Propagandists for a Broken Establishment
Why you shouldn’t trust Wikipedia By Gary Null & Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network April 4, 2019 Science, whether in academia or in the mainstream media, television or popular online outlets, is the rarefied domain of “experts,” we are told. To prove they are experts, the gatekeepers of the Academy present a pedigreed background, bristling [...]Slaying Homeopathy and Americans’ Freedom of Health Choices
Slaying Homeopathy and Americans' Freedom of Health Choices Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 9, 2018 With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort and worry; the first instinct is to abolish these painful sensations. First principle: any explanation is better than none.... The search for causes is thus [...]Wikipedia Fails Again: The Case of Misinformation about Curcumin
Wikipedia Fails Again: The Case of Misinformation about Curcumin Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network May 14, 2019 Wikipedia states, "Although thoroughly studied in laboratory and clinical studies, curcumin has no confirmed medical uses."[6] Wikipedia also cites a 2017 review of over 120 studies that disclaims any of curcumin's therapeutic effects.[7] or the moment we can [...]Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against Chiropractic
Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against Chiropractic Medical Despotism, the AMA's and Wikipedia's Offensive Against Chiropractic Richard Gale & Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 30, 2018 "Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine mostly concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine. Proponents claim [...]Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side
Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side By Helen Buyniski Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website on the internet. It presents itself as a “people’s encyclopedia,” a neutral utopia in which anyone can edit an article in their area of expertise, adding and correcting facts to enhance the sum total of the world’s knowledge. In theory, [...]Wikipedia’s Leading Abettor in Skepticism’s Pro-Industry Propaganda
Wikipedia's Leading Abettor in Skepticism’s Pro-Industry Propaganda Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD and Neal Greenfield, Esq. Progressive Radio Network, September 17, 2019 For all of Skepticism's animosity against climate change denialism, oddly this fringe faction within the scientific community consistently supports private corporate interests that contribute to the destruction of the environment and rising greenhouse [...]Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against
Medical Despotism, the AMA's and Wikipedia's Offensive Against Chiropractic Richard Gale & Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 30, 2018 "Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine mostly concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine. Proponents claim that such disorders affect general health via the nervous [...]The Gary Null Show – Science Based Medicine: A Swamp of Medical Buffoonery – 02.06.20
Science Based Medicine: A Swamp of Medical Buffoonery Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network February 6, 2020 Every religion, large institution, political party and scientific and social discipline has its lunatic fringe. Within the practice of medicine in the 21st century the aberrant margins are the far extremes of alternative medical beliefs and the small clique [...]Wikipedia: Our New Technological McCarthyism, Part Two
Wikipedia- Our New Technological McCarthyism Pt2 Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network May 1, 2018 In Part One, we discussed the threats social media technology poses to a healthy and educated populace, the scientist cult of Skepticism and its extremist medical wing, and the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a leading promulgator for Skepticism's [...]Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Ayurveda
Wikipedia's Hate Campaign Against Ayurveda Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network October 31, 2019 Alongside Traditional Chinese Medicine, Indian Ayurveda is one of the world's oldest medical systems still widely accepted and practiced today. It has managed to thrive and flourish for at least three millennia and has built up an enormous [...]Debunking Wikipedia’s Warrior Against Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Debunking Wikipedia's Warrior Against Complementary and Alternative Medicine Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD, Victoria Theophanis Progressive Radio Network February 26, 2020 Rarely do we question the integrity, veracity and hidden motivations of an expert speaking or writing on any given topic. Patients rarely question the diagnosis or prescribed treatment of their cardiologist, oncologist, urologist, etc. [...]Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad?
Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network April 5, 2019 The New York Times has given retired portrait photographer Susan Gerbic a bully pulpit to paint her “hobby” – Skepticism – as [...]
Wikipedia is not an Encyclopedia
Wikipedia is not an Encyclopedia By Neal S. Greenfield, Esq. What if there were ways for people to live happier and healthy lives that would enrich the lives of millions? What is there was valuable information about the dangers of putting toxic substances into your body that appear all around us, in our environment and [...]Quackwatch’s Conspiratorial Theory Against Alternative Medicine
Quackwatch’s Conspiratorial Theory Against Alternative Medicine Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network August 15, 2019 A trend that is increasingly becoming accepted in mainstream, conventional medicine has been the acceptance of complementary and alternative medical theories and practices. Since 1997, Quackwatch has been the nation’s leading voice opposing the growing popularity in [...]The Vaccine Deep State
The Vaccine Deep State Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network November 7, 2019 Who coined the term anti-vaccine or anti-vaxx? The derogatory term "anti-vaxxer," which has been championed by the media and the medical industry's experts who function as the media's talking heads, are merely people who question the efficacy and safety [...]Wikipedia: A Roadmap to a Catastrophic Future
Wikipedia: A Roadmap to a Catastrophic Future Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 9, 2020 During the past 19 years Wikipedia has risen to the admirable status as the world’s most formidable and trusted encyclopedia to educate and inform the public about acceptable and unacceptable medical systems, therapies and interventions. Although there [...]Reasons to Walk Away from Wickedpedia
Reasons to Walk Away from Wickedpedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, December 23, 2019 It is that time of year for seasonal acts of compassion, kindness and giving. Again Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales has reached out to tens of millions of Wikipedia users to solicit donations to keep the Wikimedia Foundation's [...]Why does Wikipedia want to deprive you of Acupuncture?
Why does Wikipedia want to deprive you of Acupuncture? Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, June 25, 2018 Although it is completely ignored by the mainstream media, all natural and alternative medical philosophy and therapies remain under constant attack in the United States, as well as in the UK, France, Canada, Australia and [...]Modern Skepticism: Western Civilization’s Scientific Wahhabism
Modern Skepticism: Western Civilization's Scientific Wahhabism Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network October 25, 2019 The history of scientific and medical research is pervaded with examples of denigration and suppression by a dominant scientific elite. In the absence of dissent, innovation and vision that promises progress and reform, a population succumbs to [...]Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side
Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side By Helen Buyniski Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website on the internet. It presents itself as a “people’s encyclopedia,” a neutral utopia in which anyone can edit an article in their area of expertise, adding and correcting facts to enhance the sum total of the world’s knowledge. In theory, [...]Wikipedia Astroturfing to Discredit Energy Medicine and Psychology
Wikipedia Astroturfing to Discredit Energy Medicine and Psychology Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, November 26, 2019 In 2014, a heated exchange took place between Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales and the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology's President Dr. Debby Vajda. The internet war of words was the first instance revealing Wales' prejudiced [...]Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Ayurveda
Wikipedia's Hate Campaign Against Ayurveda Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network October 31, 2019 Alongside Traditional Chinese Medicine, Indian Ayurveda is one of the world's oldest medical systems still widely accepted and practiced today. It has managed to thrive and flourish for at least three millennia and has built up an enormous [...]Wikipedia: the Modern Delphic Oracle
Wikipedia: the Modern Delphic Oracle By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network September 25, 2018 Can we trust Wikipedia as an unbiased source of truth? Can we at least offer it the same trust we place in our news media?The country is experiencing a crisis of confidence. Establishment credibility is collapsing all around us. We know [...]Skepticism and the New Scientific Inquisition
Skepticism and the New Scientific Inquisition Progressive Radio Network January 23 2019 It is my opinion that American emergency medicine is the finest in the world with the highest level of success of helping to save lives and improve conditions from stroke to heart attack as well as from operations, traumatic accidents and end stage [...]Why you shouldn’t trust Wikipedia: Propagandists for a Broken Establishment
Why you shouldn’t trust Wikipedia By Gary Null & Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network April 4, 2019 Science, whether in academia or in the mainstream media, television or popular online outlets, is the rarefied domain of “experts,” we are told. To prove they are experts, the gatekeepers of the Academy present a pedigreed background, bristling [...]Wikipedia’s Vaccination Bias
Wikipedia's Vaccination Bias Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network June 25, 2019 The US, and indeed many other nations around the world, is witnessing a contentious debate about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. The forces are lining up over whether vaccination should be mandated by government or whether citizens have civil rights and freedom [...]Homeopathy: How Can Wikipedia Get It So Wrong?
Homeopathy: How Can Wikipedia Get It So Wrong? By Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD., Amy Mitura, Esq., Neal Greenfield, Esq. Progressive Radio Network August 29, 2019 In 2014, Dana Ullman, who is regarded as America’s leading advocate for homeopathy and an author and publisher of over 35 books about this alternative medical system, bumped into [...]Wikipedia: Where Narcissists and Sociopaths Are Always Welcome
Wikipedia: An Opinion: Where Narcissists and Sociopaths Are Always Welcome Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network August 22, 2019 In looking up information on alternative health issues using a legitimate, highly respected encyclopedia such as Encyclopedia Britannica we find a fair, balanced, and scholarly review of the available literature on topics such as [...]Wikipedia Skeptics Attack on Truth in Journalism
Wikipedia Skeptics Attack on Truth in Journalism Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD and Neal Greenfield, Esq. Progressive Radio Network, September 5, 2019 There are thousands of American journalists. The public expects them to be independent of political, financial and ideological biases. Indeed there are multiple examples. But there are very few journalists in the mainstream [...]The Illegitimacy of Quackwatch’s Health Bias
The Illegitimacy of Quackwatch's Health Bias Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network December 31, 2019 To the average person who is seeking high quality and reliable peer-reviewed research on any given medical topic, a Google search takes you more often than not immediately to Wikipedia. However, if the information you seek concerns [...]Wikipedia’s Disdain Towards Alternative Medical Experts: The Case of Naturopathy
Wikipedia's Disdain Towards Alternative Medical Experts: The Case of Naturopathy Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, December 3, 2019 Americans are increasingly turning to Complementary and Alternative Medical (CAM) systems for their healthcare needs. This trend has been underway for several decades. This has been perceived as competition by the medical establishment. [...]WIKIPEDIA: SUPPORTING THE DARK SIDE OF MEDICINE?
Wikipedia: Supporting The Dark Side Of Medicine? By Helen Buyniski and Gary Null, PhD. Progressive Radio Network January 22, 2019 Despite what doctors may tell their patients, medicine is not infallible. Bad treatments and dangerous drugs have persisted as universally-accepted medical practices for long periods of time, far beyond when people began to catch on [...]Wikipedia: a Web of Deception
Wikipedia: a Web of Deception By Helen Buyniski and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network August 13, 2013 Wikipedia wants us to believe the entries in its “encyclopedia” are truthful, fair, and balanced. However, a comprehensive analysisofits nutritional articles reveals a plethora of factual inconsistencies and a clear and present bias against the very idea of [...]Wikipedia- The Flawed Non-Encyclopedia
Wikipedia: The Flawed Non-Encyclopedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, May 13, 2020 At this very moment, there are highly respected physicians, epidemiologists, medical biostaticians, forensic experts and other scientists coming forth to voice concerns over the information being disseminated in the mainstream media about the COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases their [...]Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad?
Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network April 5, 2019 The New York Times has given retired portrait photographer Susan Gerbic a bully pulpit to paint her “hobby” – Skepticism – as [...]Wikipedia: The Internet’s Devil’s Island.
Wikipedia: The Internet's Devil's Island. Richard Gale and Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 30, 2019 Institutional incarceration, isolation under torture -- physical and/or psychological -- takes many forms and shapes. During the course of modern European history, perhaps the most notorious and immoral prison was Devil's Island, a French penal colony located on [...]Wikipedia: Our New Technological McCarthyism, Part Two
Wikipedia- Our New Technological McCarthyism Pt2 Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network May 1, 2018 In Part One, we discussed the threats social media technology poses to a healthy and educated populace, the scientist cult of Skepticism and its extremist medical wing, and the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a leading promulgator for Skepticism's [...]Wikipedia Misinformation and Prejudice: Case Examples of Drs. Deepak Chopra and Gary Null
Wikipedia Misinformation and Prejudice: Case Examples of Drs Deepak Chopra and Gary Null Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network September 26, 2019 Recently, when the Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah she characterized the smell of New York City as “indescribable.” This is a perfect malapropism to describe [...]Why Jimmy Wales’ Personal Philosophy Should Discredit Wikipedia’s Trustworthiness
Why Jimmy Wales’ Personal Philosophy Should Discredit Wikipedia's Trustworthiness Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, October 15, 2019 When we think about the most powerful and influential voices in the world, we more often than not recognize presidents, statespersons, leading social reformers, and great visionaries. But rarely would Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales [...]Wikipedia’s Culture of Institutional Bias
Wikipedia's Culture of Institutional Bias Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network June 11, 2019 Weekly, millions of people Google their concerns about their health and a large variety of illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, etc. They expect, with speed and accuracy, to find the current scientifically based and clinically [...]Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad?
Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network April 5, 2019 The New York Times has given retired portrait photographer Susan Gerbic a bully pulpit to paint her “hobby” – Skepticism – as a benign, almost cutesy pushback against an epidemic of American [...]Senior Wikipedia Editors Recommend that the Site Being Euthanized
Senior Wikipedia Editors Recommend that the Site Be Euthanized Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network November 22, 2019 Last year a senior administrator and editor on Wikipedia questioned the encyclopedia's usefulness and proposed that Wikipedia was "on its death bed and that euthanasia is the best option in this case." The editor, [...]Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Holistic Healing
Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Holistic Healing By Gary Null and Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network February 13, 2019 From the mind of Jimmy Wales, to the alternative health community: “What we won’t do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of “true scientific discourse”. It isn’t.” One [...]Debunking Wikipedia’s Warrior Against Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Debunking Wikipedia's Warrior Against Complementary and Alternative Medicine Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD, Victoria Theophanis Progressive Radio Network February 26, 2020 Rarely do we question the integrity, veracity and hidden motivations of an expert speaking or writing on any given topic. Patients rarely question the diagnosis or prescribed treatment of their cardiologist, oncologist, urologist, etc. [...]Wikipedia Watch
Dear Holistic Health Advocate, Medical professionals and practitioners of alternative medical therapies are by now fully aware that the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been exceedingly antagonistic against their professions and even entire medical systems that are regarded as “natural” or non-conventional. This disturbing anti-health trend, which continues to worsen, can be traced back at least [...]Weaponizing Wikipedia
Weaponizing Wikipedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, February 10, 2020 "It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved." -- W. Somerset Maugham "He who despises his own life is [...]America’s Medical Apartheid
America's Medical Apartheid Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network June 19, 2019 About a decade ago, my late colleague Dr. Martin Feldman and I were invited to be keynote speakers at a conference on anti-aging and alternative medicine in Chicago. The hall was packed with several thousand clinicians, physicians, medical professors, scientific researchers [...]A Marriage Made in Hell: Militant Atheism, Scientism, Wikipedia and Eugenics
A Marriage Made in Hell: Militant Atheism, Scientism, Wikipedia and Eugenics Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network February 21, 2020 The many apparent discoveries and successes in science and medicine have awarded these advances with an authority that we far too often accept without question. Skepticism is a necessary and healthy faculty. [...]Modern Skepticism: An Authentic Pseudoscience of Irrational Deception
Modern Skepticism: An Authentic Pseudoscience of Irrational Deception Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network December 10, 2019 Many of us working in healthcare professions believe that medical science, in theory,is at a transformative moment. Hundreds of thousands of scientists and physicians worldwide are conducting basic and applied research into the mechanisms for [...]Google and Wikipedia: The Internet’s Voice for the Corporate Deep State
Google and Wikipedia: The Internet's Voice for the Corporate Deep State Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Commentary Hour October 9, 2019 Google is undoubtedly the single most powerful IT corporation without second in the world. The firm possesses the world's most popular search engine, which has been given Congressional protection to abide by [...]Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core?
Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core? By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network September 14, 2018 For some time, I’d heard rumors that Wikipedia was not the open-source knowledge utopia it claimed to be. Despite a comprehensive set of rules replete with checks and balances and a seemingly open democratic editing process, stories of pay-for-play editing, character [...]Wikipedia’s Assault on Scientific Progress: The Case of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, October 10, 2018
Wikipedia’s Assault on Scientific Progress: The Case of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network October 10, 2018 Wikipedia, the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, is supposed to be an objective source of knowledge. Every entry is expected to be researched and written with a sense of balance, fairness, and accuracy and supported with [...]Quackwatch’s Promotion of Psychiatric Propaganda
Quackwatch's Promotion of Psychiatric Propaganda Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network February 3, 2020 Every respectable journalist, especially investigative reporters, have multiple sources for stories they are working on. Major news outlets and news papers, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and television news networks will also have independent fact [...]Wikipedia Fails Again: The Case of Misinformation about Curcumin
Wikipedia Fails Again: The Case of Misinformation about Curcumin Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network May 14, 2019 Wikipedia states, "Although thoroughly studied in laboratory and clinical studies, curcumin has no confirmed medical uses."[6] Wikipedia also cites a 2017 review of over 120 studies that disclaims any of curcumin's therapeutic effects.[7] or the moment we can [...]Chinese Botanical Medicine: Wikipedia Claims It is Fake, We are Certain it is Real.
Chinese Botanical Medicine: Wikipedia Claims It is Fake, We are Certain it is Real. Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, July 10, 2018 Modern conventional medicine has increasingly become a culture of scientific and historical denialism. Although portending to be an objective discipline of consistent progress, the medical establishment [...]Quackwatch’s Hatred of Acupuncture.
Quackwatch’s Hatred of Acupuncture Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network November 18, 2019 The author of the Quackwatch entry for Acupuncture entitled “Be Wary of Acupuncture, Qigong and Chinese Medicine” is Quackwatch founder Stephen Barrett. It represents Quackwatch’s official position on acupuncture that has served the purposes of Skeptic organizations, including Skeptic [...]The Gary Null Show – Science Based Medicine: A Swamp of Medical Buffoonery – 02.06.20
Science Based Medicine: A Swamp of Medical Buffoonery Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network February 6, 2020 Every religion, large institution, political party and scientific and social discipline has its lunatic fringe. Within the practice of medicine in the 21st century the aberrant margins are the far extremes of alternative medical beliefs and the small clique [...]Wikipedia’s Culture of Character Assassination: The Case of Dr. Dean Radin
Wikipedia’s Culture of Character Assassination: The Case of Dr. Dean Radin Richard Gale and Gary Null, PhD Progressive Commentary Hour October 1, 2018 Many therapeutic modalities in natural and non-conventional medicine share principles in common with parapsychology. This is particularly true of Mind-Body medicine, the power of the mind to initiate and facilitate healing. Some [...]Wikipedia’s Culture of Editorial Sadism
Wikipedia's Culture of Editorial Sadism Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, June 17, 2020 Perhaps the greatest farce in the modern history of technology is the perception of Wikipedia as a legitimate encyclopedia. It has none of the qualifications as such but has all of the characteristics of a compromised propaganda machine [...]Energy Medicine, the New Paradigm to Displace the Medical Establishment
Energy Medicine, the New Paradigm to Displace the Medical Establishment Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, June 12, 2018 During the past several decades, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is shaping rapidly into a new medical paradigm to displace our now failing and defunct Science Based Medical (SBM) model, which [...]Wikipedia Skeptics’ Crucifixion of Deepak Chopra
Wikipedia Skeptics' Crucifixion of Deepak Chopra Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, July 29, 2019 Every day tens of millions of Americans are ill, from cancer to dementia, cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes, mental disorders, etc. As bad as this massive human suffering is, Americans are also faced with uncertainty of any [...]Wikipedia: J’accuse
Wikipedia: J’accuse By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network November 7, 2018 Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world. It’s free, it’s educational, and it’s democratic – what’s not to like? The average user has no reason to think the material it publishes is anything but true, and it has become the [...]Wikipedia’s Vaccination Bias
Wikipedia's Vaccination Bias Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network June 25, 2019 The US, and indeed many other nations around the world, is witnessing a contentious debate about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. The forces are lining up over whether vaccination should be mandated by government or whether citizens have civil rights and freedom [...]The Promotion of Scientific Bias on Wikipedia
The Promotion of Scientific Bias on Wikipedia By Richard Gale, Neal Greenfield & Gary NullSlaying Homeopathy and Americans’ Freedom of Health Choices
Slaying Homeopathy and Americans' Freedom of Health Choices Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 9, 2018 With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort and worry; the first instinct is to abolish these painful sensations. First principle: any explanation is better than none.... The search for causes is thus [...]Wikipedia: the New Inquisition
Wikipedia: the New Inquisition By Helen Buyniski Progressive Radio Network January 14, 2019 Consider: you are given a serious diagnosis – cancer, dementia, multiple sclerosis – and your doctor runs you through the standard treatment protocol. It fails to reverse or cure the condition, leaving you hundreds of thousands of dollars poorer and sicker. [...]Be Skeptical of Wikipedia Skeptics
Be Skeptical of Wikipedia Skeptics Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network July 23, 2019 As we have stated on many occasions in previous investigative reports, often it is not what Skeptics include on Wikipedia pages that raise concerns for alarm; equally important are the solid facts that are omitted, removed and/or censored. [...]Wikipedia: Dumb & Dumber About Fluoride
Wikipedia: Dumb and Dumber About Fluoridation Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 1, 2020 In the satirical black comedy film Dr. Strangelove there is the iconic scene when the rogue general Jack D Ripper, played by Sterling Hayden, tells Peter Sellers character, “Ever hear of the fluoridation of water? Do you [...]Wikipedia’s Skeptical Assault on Botanical Medicine
Wikipedia's Skeptical Assault on Botanical Medicine Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network May 18, 2018 Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales claims to hold high standards of objectivity and balance in the content of the online encyclopedia and the integrity of his volunteer army of editors. Indeed this is largely true; except when it comes [...]Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against Chiropractic
Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against Chiropractic Medical Despotism, the AMA's and Wikipedia's Offensive Against Chiropractic Richard Gale & Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 30, 2018 "Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine mostly concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine. Proponents claim [...]STEPHEN BARRETT, THE AMA & WIKIPEDIA’S ASSAULT AGAINST CHIROPRACTIC
Stephen Barrett, The AMA & Wikipedia’s Assault Against Chiropractic Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network April 3, 2019 Ever since its inception in the 1890s, Chiropractic medicine has been falsely charged by the medical establishment as pseudoscience and quackery. This is the version of the story Wikipedia distorts and propagates. Chiropractic is one [...]WICKED, WICKED WIKIPEDIA: THE CORRUPTION AND COLLAPSE OF THE LEGENDARY PEOPLE’S ENCYCLOPEDIA. Richard Gale and Gary Null
Wicked, Wicked Wikipedia: The Corruption And Collapse Of The Legendary People’s Encyclopedia. Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network September 18, 2018 It is time to take a serious, critical look at Wikipedia and its mission. Is it everything it purports to be as an objective encyclopedic source of knowledge or just another anti-democratic [...]Should Wikipedia Be Trusted for HIV Retroviral Therapy?
Should Wikipedia Be Trusted for HIV Retroviral Therapy? David Crowe, Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Commentary Hour October 4, 2019 Wikipedia's entry for HIV prevention and treatment drug Zidovudine (ZDV), more commonly known as AZT (azidothymidine) and Retrovir, is largely a sanitized history about the discovery of by far the most important AIDS [...]Wikipedia: Our New Technological McCarthyism, Part 1
Wikipedia: Our New Technological McCarthyism Pt 1 Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 3, 2018 Today, the internet, often thought of as our world's "final frontier" for free thinkers and the flow and exchange of ideas and information, is seriously ill. It has been systemically infected by ideological viruses, memes of information [...]Why Does Wikipedia Recommend Fluoride?
Why Does Wikipedia Recommend Fluoride? By Helen Buyniski and Gary Null, Ph. D. Progressive Radio Network February 28, 2019 Wikipedia is a staunch defender of water fluoridation. Parroting the statements of arch-Skeptic Stephen Barrett, its editors sacrifice reams of scientific data to push the scientifically-debunked theories of those who would put this proven neurotoxin in [...]Medical Skepticism: Today’s Scientific Cultural Disease
Medical Skepticism: Our Scientific Cultural Disease Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, August 5, 2019 Modern day Skepticism is one of those annoying contagions that won't go away. It is rather like a persistent Candida yeast infection. It is painful to common sense. Worse, Skepticism flares up when you least expect it. [...]Wikipedia Skeptics’ Mission to Suppress the Dissemination of Quality Health and Medical Studies
Wikipedia Skeptics’ Mission to Suppress the Dissemination of Quality Health and Medical Studies By Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network August 19, 2019 Skeptics place an enormous amount of importance in the scientific research that appears in peer-reviewed publications. At the same time it is correctly critical of the quality of large [...]Why Does Wikipedia Want to Destroy Deepak Chopra?
Why Does Wikipedia Want to Destroy Deepak Chopra? Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network September 11, 2019 For the past 40 years, one of the most prominent and important voices for the mind-body medical movement has been Dr. Deepak Chopra. Aside from his prolific publishing career with over 80 books and a [...]Stephen Barrett: Wikipedia’s Agent Provacateur Against Natural Medicine
Stephen Barrett: Wikipedia’s Agent Provacateur Against Natural Medicine Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network April 1, 2019 During the past year, we have released 24 separate investigative stories about Wikipedia, its co-founder Jimmy Wales, and the fringe movement of Skeptics who have gained monopolistic editorial control over Wikipedia entries dealing with natural health, nutrition and complementary [...]Wikipedia: Big Pharma’s Propaganda Machine
Wikipedia: Big Pharma’s Propaganda Machine Progressive Radio Network March 28, 2019 Every day, hundreds of millions if not billions of people worldwide wake up suffering from various maladies. From heart disease, depression, cancer, diabetes, obesity, inflammatory conditions and the ravages of aging, including dementia, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s. In the US and Western Europe, the [...]Wikipedia’s Vaccine Propaganda Regime
Wikipedia's Vaccine Propaganda Regime Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network July 12, 2019 During the past year there has been a deliberate assault on medical sanity by the Silicon Valley's internet giants and popular social media platforms to abolish and censor voices and websites challenging the orthodoxy of the CDC's vaccination policies. [...]Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side
Wikipedia Embraces the Dark Side By Helen Buyniski Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website on the internet. It presents itself as a “people’s encyclopedia,” a neutral utopia in which anyone can edit an article in their area of expertise, adding and correcting facts to enhance the sum total of the world’s knowledge. In [...]Can We Trust Wikipedia and Its Medical Skepticism?
Can We Trust Wikipedia and Its Medical Skepticism? Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Commentary Hour, August 2, 2018 It is not skepticism that is at fault for science's lack of movement into the future... It is fear, conservatism, and dogmatism. It is pseudoskepticism which clings to a scientifically disproved belief system, a triumvirate of [...]Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against
Medical Despotism, the AMA's and Wikipedia's Offensive Against Chiropractic Richard Gale & Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, May 30, 2018 "Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine mostly concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine. Proponents claim that such disorders affect general health via the nervous [...]Weaponizing Wikipedia
Weaponizing Wikipedia Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, February 10, 2020 "It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved." -- W. Somerset Maugham "He who despises his own life is [...]Wikipedia’s Violation of the Communications Decency Act
Wikipedia's Violation of the Communications Decency Act Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network February 13, 2020 Wikipedia is promoted as an “encyclopedia” and in an attempt to authenticate itself as such it compares itself to other general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs and gazetteers. Wikipedia states that it is not to be a resource for unverifiable material; [...]Wikipedia, Stephen Barrett, and Sweet Suicide
Wikipedia, Stephen Barrett, and Sweet Suicide By Gary Null PhD and Amy Mitura Progressive Radio Network August 27, 2019 Millions of people, throughout the world, after decades of consuming an American-style diet, are starting to pay attention to what they are putting into their bodies. Finally, there is a conscious questioning of the safety the [...]Wikipedia’s Leading Abettor in Skepticism’s Pro-Industry Propaganda
Wikipedia's Leading Abettor in Skepticism’s Pro-Industry Propaganda Richard Gale, Gary Null PhD and Neal Greenfield, Esq. Progressive Radio Network, September 17, 2019 For all of Skepticism's animosity against climate change denialism, oddly this fringe faction within the scientific community consistently supports private corporate interests that contribute to the destruction of the environment and rising greenhouse [...]
