News Target is a pseudo-scientific website run by huckster Mike Adams, who calls himself the “Health Ranger.” Adams is convinced he’s “discovered something truly astonishing: the vast majority of all diseases can be easily prevented and even cured without drugs or surgery.”

He claims to be able to provide information that can help any person cure “diabetes, cancer, heart disease, depression, osteoporosis, and many other so-called ‘diseases.’” He also insists he’s possibly more than doubled his own mental capacity, having “found a way to unlock at least another 10%, maybe more” of his brainpower. (You’d think if Adams had doubled his brainpower he might be able to figure this out.)

Adams claims to have sworn off television, alcohol, nicotine, drugs, red meat, fragrances and fun. Hold on, I added in the “fun” part. And he’s the real thing — not some phony — he says, because he sells books, not pills.

I mention all this by way of inviting Agitator readers to take News Target’s Gullibility Factor survey. (Note: It’s filled with straw-man choices. Also, I’m apparently quite gullible.)

The real fun here comes in the explanations and links provided in News Target’s post-survey responses. It may be, for example, the only place on the Internet that contains recommended links to the writings of both the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Congressman Ron Paul.

[Cross-posted at To the People.]

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 15th, 2005 at 6:05 pm by Baylen Linnekin and is filed under Alcohol, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.