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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 of choice over medical interventions. A lesson can be learned from the […]

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 proven information. The majority of people begin to approach a personal health crisis by turning exclusively to […]

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 ignore the 2017 review until we look later at the failures of the Cochrane Collaboration, the flagship […]

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 of the largest entries for any natural medical modality in the online encyclopedia.  With 225 cherry-picked citations, the lead paragraph […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 agenda. In Part Two, we go deeper into the Science-Based Medical faction and its advancing an unfounded […]

Why is the New York Times Promoting a Wikipedia Character Assassination Squad? Why is the New York Times Promoting a WikipediaCharacter 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 […]

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 intent on poisoning freedom of expression that we take for granted every time we use Google or visit […]

Wikipedia Embraces the Dark SideBy 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, it […]