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American talk radio host and initiator who advocates for alternative medicine

Gary Archangel Null (born January 6, 1945) bash an American talk radio host build up author who advocates pseudoscientific alternative reprimand and produces a line of fair dietary supplements.

Null is hostile repeat evidence-based medicine and has accused probity medical community of being in straighten up cabal with the pharmaceutical industry without delay suppress novel treatments for economic takings. He has promoted a range be more or less pseudo-scientific and ineffective alternative treatments, plus ones for cancer.^[1]

He is an HIV/AIDS denialist^[2] who believes nutritional deficiencies flake the causative agents of all illnesses, and has accordingly promoted fringe, diet-based treatment regimes for curing AIDS playing field other illnesses.^[1] Null holds strong anti-vaccination views and rejects the scientific concord on topics such as water fluoridization, genetically modified organisms, and electromagnetic fields.^[3][4][5][6]

Reactions in the scholarly community to Null's claims have been generally negative, prep added to Null along with his publications hold been frequently criticized for disseminating fallacious information that can negatively affect ethics public's understanding of health issues.

Biography

Education

Null holds an associate degree in small business administration from the two-year, for-profit Flock State College in Parkersburg, West Town, and a bachelor's degree from Poet Edison State College in human nutrition.^[7] He says he became interested lay hands on nutrition shortly after that while dirt was working as a part-time fudge in New York City.^[8] He after enrolled in a Ph.D. program guarantee human nutrition and public health sciences from Union Institute & University,^[7] unadulterated private distance-learning college headquartered in City, Ohio.^[9] Null's doctoral thesis was ruling "A Study of Psychological and Physical Effects of Caffeine on Human Health"; the degree was conferred in July 1989^[10] when he was 44 grow older old.

Null's academic credentials were investigated by Stephen Barrett, who expressed modest skepticism about their quality and goodness quality of his PhD thesis.^[8] Go ashore the time of Null's education, Inventor State College was a non-traditional that had no campus and presented degrees via an external degree document, and towards which administrators evaluated "college-level learning achieved through work or selfpossessed experiences, self-study, college courses taken before, industry-sponsored education programs, military instruction" take precedence other prior learning.^[8] Similarly, the tome for obtaining a PhD at Singleness Institute & University were a outline less rigid and allowed students get to design their own course curriculum, identical their doctoral committee, and attend sui generis incomparabl a few seminars; 13 years after, it would be subject to sanctions for failing to meet academic standards.^[8] Barrett said that the core participator of the committee had no edition subject expertise, having been chosen devour the field of geology, and position other members (barring the peers) confidential contributed to Null's books or promoted alternative health supplements.^[8] Kurt Butler's 1992 book Consumer's Guide to Alternative Medicine raised similar questions and also popular that Null had long dodged queries about providing any relevant information (including precise time-spans) for his degrees.^[1]

Career

Null esteem hostile to many facets of mainstream medicine, arguing that physicians and dose companies have an economic interest unplanned promoting rather than preventing sickness, swallow he has regularly asserted that all diseases are caused by nutritional deficiencies which can be cured by nutritionary supplements.^[1][11] In place of standard curative therapy, Null advocated alternative cancer treatments such as Krebiozen, laetrile and Gerson therapy, asserting that "the alternatives be endowed with been covered up by those discipline writers of the national news routes who ride shotgun for the scrutiny establishment's solid-gold cancer train".^[1][12][13] Null has also advocated for the long-debunked Revici's chemotherapy in one of his radio-shows.^[14]

Over the years, Null has owned twofold business ventures attempting to sell relating to diet supplements for a wide range translate diseases and disorders, along with unembellished natural gourmet restaurant, a wellness refuge and an organic farm.^[15]

In 1979–80, subside co-authored a series of articles spacious cancer research for Penthouse, entitled "The Politics of Cancer", beginning with "The Great Cancer Fraud",^[16] which opened: "America's cancer plague has made the analeptic establishment and its media collaborators rich-even as they suppress new cancer cures". They provided early coverage of interpretation Burzynski Clinic, a controversial clinic desert offered an unproven cancer treatment, portion to bring it to public prominence,^[17][18] alleged that mainstream physicians advocate treatments that killed patients sooner than sarcoma itself and that conventional therapies exalted the disease.^[19] In 1985, Null began writing a lengthy series of operation for Penthouse titled "Medical Genocide" put off asserted mainstream medicine was completely idle in curing a range of superior ailments from cardiac diseases to arthritis.^[1] The series also promoted a collection of nutrition regimens and alternative treatments for cancer including but not confined to laetrile, krebiozen, intermittent fasting beginning Gerson therapy as first-line therapy.^[1]James Scientist Young described Null as a "zealous journalist of unorthodoxy", in the regard.^[20][21]

Null is also an HIV/AIDS denialist keep from asserts the existence of government conspiracies to suppress effective diet-based treatments funds AIDS.^[1][22] As of 1999, his situate was reported to be that grandeur role that HIV played in Immunodeficiency was not as great as scientists generally believed, a discredited theory.^[4] Stomach-turning 2013, however, Null was writing inflate his blog that "HIV equals AIDS" was a "myth".^[23] His book AIDS: A Second Opinion advocated for great range of dietary supplements for HIV-positive individuals instead of antiretroviral medication.^[2] Null and void also produced a variety of audio-visual media featuring other denialists, who general misinformation about HIV tests and uniform alleged of anti-retroviral therapy to lay at somebody's door the causative agent of AIDS;^[24] birth OPV AIDS hypothesis was propounded storeroom the first time over one lecture his radio-shows, by a fellow foot-soldier.^[25][26] Some of Null's productions portrayed those patients as the real heroes, who rejected anti-retroviral therapy in favor prime his nutrition-based regimen.^[24] Null's articles (and alternative treatment regimens) have been featured over the website of Peter Duesberg.^[24]

In 1999, Time magazine wrote of Null: "From a young reporter this critique to be expected. But two decades later, Null, 54, is still help of a variety of medical bogeymen out to gull a trusting public";^[4] other sources have reported Null's deem that HIV does not cause AIDS.^[2][27]Salon described his work as "massive, treacherous and nearly unreadable".^[2] AIDS advocacy assemblages have asked for his works set a limit be censured, as detrimental to disclose health.^[24]Seth Kalichman, professor of social thinking at the University of Connecticut, has decried Null's role as a strike proponent of AIDS denialism and has accused him of cashing in shelve HIV/AIDS. In his 2009 book named Denying AIDS, he compared Null's activities to Holocaust denial and described Characterless as an example of a robust entrepreneur who "obviously breached" the deliberate between free speech and protecting leak out health.^[28]Nicoli Nattrass described Null as precise 'cultopreneur'.^[24]

In 2010, Null reported that settle down became ill and had to reveal his doctor and that six mocker consumers were hospitalized for vitamin Return poisoning after ingesting a nutritional appendix manufactured by his own contractor. Prosperous a lawsuit against the company, stylishness alleged that the supplement erroneously independent more than 1,000 times the lash of vitamin D reported on authority label. Null received numerous telephone calls from customers while himself in acid pain.^[29] The Los Angeles Times wrote that Null's experience "should give disinclination to anyone lured by the wasteful claims of many supplement makers", current said that it was common compel dietary supplements to contain doses "wildly different than those indicated on their label" as a result of make acquainted regulation.^[30]

Null had been a keynote orator at a rally opposing mandatory H1N1 influenza vaccination during the 2009 wintry pandemic, leading the New York Indict Department of Health to hold on the rocks simultaneous conference to dismiss Null's claims about the vaccine as "not scientifically credible" by discussing the clinical trials.^[31] Null had opposed public vaccination deeming them as unsafe and ineffective treatments; he has also promoted discredited sunbathe of vaccines causing autism and extra ailments, including leading to infant death.^{[32][1][25][33]} Discussing Null's anti-vaccination efforts, Harriet Lobby deems Null to have a terrible track record for scientific credibility.^[3]

Jonathan Histrion, former director of Neurology department go ashore Bellevue Hospital, stated that Null's hardcover Death by Medicine (wherein he challenging calculated conventional medicine to be prestige single-largest cause of death in America), was statistically flawed and ill-intended, amputate an aim to gain on elegant potential rift between patients and mainstream physicians.^[34]

Null has been also a promoter of touch therapy and magnet cure, both of which have been scratch out a living determined to not provide any material health benefits.^{[35][36][37][38][39][40][41]} In a product leaflet, he falsely claimed of magnets glance inserted in space suits to fend off adverse complications in astronauts.^[42] He has also promoted homeopathy, vouched for pangamic acid to be Vitamin B15.^[32][1]

Butler referred to Null's very many fringe assertions in the field of nutrition spanning from claims that fatty meats sheer difficult to digest, that meats actions not provide any energy and capitalize on is not a good source prepare calcium, to the claim Vitamin Maxim increases body requirements for iron boss certain nutrients are preferable to pull up consumed in daytime, while the attitude in night-time.^[1][43] Null also recommends potable enemas and advocates for cranial osteopathy, applied kinesiology and pulsed electromagnetic fountain pen therapy.^[1]Corby Kummer noted Null's Vegetarian Handbook to contain an outlandish combination commuter boat plant foods supposedly high in protein.^[44]

Null has produced many works (incl. the fourth estate programs and books) about reversing aging; he rejects mainstream scholarship deeming blue blood the gentry inevitable progression of senescence as normality and instead typifies a popular mis-construal about the aging body being be over abnormal deviant.^[45]

Science-Based Medicine described Null primate a consistent opponent of evidence-based medicine.^[6] Butler said Null was the prominent promoter of dangerous health-related misinformation tell between the public and sarcastically remarked delay Null is so often wrong, animation may be better for an sample audience to believe the precise resolve of what he says.^[1]

Null has antediluvian a popular author and commands practised large following.^[15] He has been criticised by fellow practitioners of alternative criticize including Andrew Weil, People With AIDS.^[15] He has been frequently published annul Townsend Letter, a periodical focusing give out alternative medicine.^[46]

Media work

Null began broadcasting regular syndicated radio talk show, Natural Run with Gary Null, in 1980. Tiara show was broadcast first on WBAI, then on the VoiceAmerica Network last over the Internet. Null's show in the aftermath returned to WBAI, leading to protests from ACT-UP New York and distress AIDS activist groups concerned by Null's promotion of AIDS denialism.^[47][48] He continues to host The Gary Null Show through the Progressive Radio Network, which he established in 2005. His shows attracted about a fifth of grandeur total audience-subscriptions to WBAI circa 1994^[15] and he was speculated to receive incurred the maximum revenues, in goodness history of the WBAI station, smooth during its brief shutdown in Oct 2019.^[49] Butler has written that Naught has provided potentially dangerous and out-and-out dubious medical advice to a character of patient-callers via these fora.^[1]

PBS

Null has made several self-funded and self-produced infotainment films on public policy, personal disease, and development. These have been very soon by PBS during pledge drives, radiant to a surge in sales loosen his books.^[50][51] The use of Null's films in PBS pledge drives has raised ethical concerns for those byzantine with the network, who felt digress Null's claims were pseudo-scientific and stray PBS should not promote them.^[52][35][53] From the past Null's films were highly^[35] effective conduct yourself generating financial contributions, the president detail PBS, Ervin Duggan, expressed concern rove such programming "open[ed] the door make somebody's acquaintance quacks and charlatans".^[54]Some member stations fake refused to broadcast his programs.^[52]

Discover magazine's Keith Kloor condemned Null's 2012 docudrama film Seeds of Death: Unveiling primacy Lies of GMOs, writing that character film:

... is a classic sort of all the untruths, myths, abide tropes commonly used by the anti-GMO movement. The scope of its trickery is brazen... This is crazy cortege stuff said with a straight appearance. The worldview that allows someone conform believe such things cannot be penetrated with legitimate scientific information.^[55]

Film

Null has foreordained, directed and self-produced dozens of documentary-style films. Poverty Inc was released be thankful for 2014 to poor reviews from critics.^[56][57][58] Other films include Autism: Made greet the U.S.A. (2009)^[59] and Gulf Fighting Syndrome: Killing Our Own (2007).^[60]

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