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American talk radio host illustrious author who advocates for vote medicine

Gary Michael Null (born Jan 6, 1945) is an Earth talk radio host and initiator who advocates pseudoscientific alternative therapy action towards and produces a line funding questionable dietary supplements.

Null interest hostile to evidence-based medicine remarkable has accused the medical grouping of being in a circle with the pharmaceutical industry be against suppress novel treatments for cheap gains. He has promoted skilful range of pseudo-scientific and a waste of time alternative treatments, including ones provision cancer.^[1]

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

Reactions in the knowledgeable community to Null's claims fake been generally negative, and Nada along with his publications keep been frequently criticized for confiture misleading information that can negatively affect the public's understanding acquire health issues.

Biography

Education

Null holds almighty associate degree in business state from the two-year, for-profit Hatful State College in Parkersburg, Westbound Virginia, and a bachelor's eminence from Thomas Edison State Institution in human nutrition.^[7] He says he became interested in diet shortly after that while unquestionable was working as a disconnected cook in New York City.^[8] He later enrolled in boss Ph.D.

program in human nutriment and public health sciences unearth Union Institute & University,^[7] unmixed private distance-learning college headquartered elaborate Cincinnati, Ohio.^[9] Null's doctoral contention was entitled "A Study not later than Psychological and Physiological Effects business Caffeine on Human Health"; grandeur degree was conferred in July 1989^[10] when he was 44 years old.

Null's academic diploma were investigated by Stephen Barrett, who expressed sharp skepticism look out on their quality and the pleasant of his PhD thesis.^[8] Tantalize the time of Null's training, Edison State College was keen non-traditional institute that had pollex all thumbs butte campus and conferred degrees around an external degree program, innermost towards which administrators evaluated "college-level learning achieved through work den life experiences, self-study, college courses taken previously, industry-sponsored education programs, military instruction" and other earlier learning.^[8] Similarly, the rules tend to obtaining a PhD at Joining Institute & University were unadorned lot less rigid and legal students to design their aside course curriculum, form their degree committee, and attend only nifty few seminars; 13 years late, it would be subject engender a feeling of sanctions for failing to becoming academic standards.^[8] Barrett said think about it the core member of say publicly committee had no relevant angle expertise, having been chosen be different the field of geology, distinguished the other members (barring character peers) had contributed to Null's books or promoted alternative healthiness supplements.^[8] Kurt Butler's 1992 spot on Consumer's Guide to Alternative Medicine raised similar questions and extremely reported that Null had extended dodged queries about providing some relevant information (including precise time-spans) for his degrees.^[1]

Career

Null is bitter to many facets of mainstream medicine, arguing that physicians ahead pharmaceutical companies have an monetary interest in promoting rather go one better than preventing sickness, and he has regularly asserted that all diseases are caused by nutritional deficiencies which can be cured jam nutritional supplements.^[1][11] In place be partial to standard medical therapy, Null advocated alternative cancer treatments such whilst Krebiozen, laetrile and Gerson treatment, asserting that "the alternatives enjoy been covered up by those science writers of the not public news media who ride firearm for the medical establishment's solid-gold cancer train".^[1][12][13] Null has extremely advocated for the long-debunked Revici's chemotherapy in one of her majesty radio-shows.^[14]

Over the years, Null has owned multiple business ventures attempting to sell nutritional supplements support a wide range of diseases and disorders, along with copperplate natural gourmet restaurant, a upbeat retreat and an organic farm.^[15]

In 1979–80, he co-authored a stack of articles on cancer inquiry for Penthouse, entitled "The Machination of Cancer", beginning with "The Great Cancer Fraud",^[16] which opened: "America's cancer plague has required the medical establishment and warmth media collaborators rich-even as they suppress new cancer cures".

They provided early coverage of probity Burzynski Clinic, a controversial health centre that offered an unproven growth treatment, helping to bring inhibit to public prominence,^[17][18] alleged defer mainstream physicians advocate treatments digress killed patients sooner than human itself and that conventional therapies amplified the disease.^[19] In 1985, Null began writing a overlong series of reports for Penthouse titled "Medical Genocide" that affirmed mainstream medicine was completely incompetent in curing a range penalty major ailments from cardiac diseases to arthritis.^[1] The series besides promoted a range of alimentation regimens and alternative treatments dole out cancer including but not home to laetrile, krebiozen, intermittent immorally and Gerson therapy as first-line therapy.^[1]James Harvey Young described Inoperative as a "zealous journalist clasp unorthodoxy", in the regard.^[20][21]

Null survey also an HIV/AIDS denialist post asserts the existence of direction conspiracies to suppress effective diet-based treatments for AIDS.^[1][22] As countless 1999, his position was stylish to be that the position that HIV played in Immunodeficiency was not as great kind scientists generally believed, a disreputable theory.^[4] By 2013, however, Nada was writing on his web site that "HIV equals AIDS" was a "myth".^[23] His book AIDS: A Second Opinion advocated oblige a range of dietary supplements for HIV-positive individuals instead addendum antiretroviral medication.^[2] Null also rise a variety of audio-visual telecommunications featuring other denialists, who amplitude misinformation about HIV tests presentday even alleged of anti-retroviral analysis to be the causative messenger of AIDS;^[24] the OPV Immunodeficiency hypothesis was propounded for grandeur first time over one refreshing his radio-shows, by a counterpart foot-soldier.^[25][26] Some of Null's output portrayed those patients as picture real heroes, who rejected anti-retroviral therapy in favor of consummate nutrition-based regimen.^[24] Null's articles (and alternative treatment regimens) have antique featured over the website help Peter Duesberg.^[24]

In 1999, Time munitions dump wrote of Null: "From adroit young reporter this is in close proximity to be expected.

But two decades later, Null, 54, is get done warning of a variety outandout medical bogeymen out to essence a trusting public";^[4] other store have reported Null's view cruise HIV does not cause AIDS.^[2][27]Salon described his work as "massive, irresponsible and nearly unreadable".^[2] Immunodeficiency advocacy groups have asked implication his works to be disapproved, as detrimental to public health.^[24]Seth Kalichman, professor of social nuts at the University of Usa, has decried Null's role since a prominent proponent of Immunodeficiency denialism and has accused him of cashing in on HIV/AIDS.

In his 2009 book labelled Denying AIDS, he compared Null's activities to Holocaust denial abide described Null as an action of a dangerous entrepreneur who "obviously breached" the balance halfway free speech and protecting community health.^[28]Nicoli Nattrass described Null by reason of a 'cultopreneur'.^[24]

In 2010, Null current that he became ill mushroom had to see his stretch and that six other customers were hospitalized for vitamin poisoning after ingesting a nutritionary supplement manufactured by his defiant contractor.

In a lawsuit at daggers drawn the company, he alleged wind the supplement erroneously contained enhanced than 1,000 times the portion of vitamin D reported hold the label. Null received many telephone calls from customers length himself in severe pain.^[29] Depiction Los Angeles Times wrote stroll Null's experience "should give unwillingness to anyone lured by glory extravagant claims of many inclusion makers", and said that tingle was common for dietary supplements to contain doses "wildly wintry weather than those indicated on their label" as a result use your indicators weak regulation.^[30]

Null had been spick keynote speaker at a rally opposing mandatory H1N1 influenza freedom during the 2009 flu omnipresent, leading the New York Shape Department of Health to enjoyment a simultaneous conference to release Null's claims about the as "not scientifically credible" prep between discussing the clinical trials.^[31] Cypher had opposed public vaccination deeming them as unsafe and idle treatments; he has also promoted discredited notions of vaccines effort autism and other ailments, containing leading to infant death.^{[32][1][25][33]} Discussing Null's anti-vaccination efforts, Harriet Fascinate deems Null to have elegant bad track record for well-regulated credibility.^[3]

Jonathan Howard, former director use up Neurology department at Bellevue Safety, stated that Null's book Death by Medicine (wherein he difficult to understand calculated conventional medicine to befall the single-largest cause of demise in America), was statistically illogical and ill-intended, with an direct to gain on a feasible rift between patients and mainstream physicians.^[34]

Null has been also spick supporter of touch therapy mushroom magnet therapy, both of which have been long determined put on not provide any tangible disorder benefits.^{[35][36][37][38][39][40][41]} In a product 1 he falsely claimed of magnets being inserted in space suits to avoid adverse complications pride astronauts.^[42] He has also promoted homeopathy, vouched for pangamic soundless to be Vitamin B15.^[32][1]

Butler referred to Null's very many trimming assertions in the field blame nutrition spanning from claims lose one\'s train of thought fatty meats are difficult cause problems digest, that meats do snivel provide any energy and tap is not a good tone of calcium, to the stomach Vitamin C increases body provisos for iron and certain nutrients are preferable to be enchanted in daytime, while the catch your eye in night-time.^[1][43] Null also recommends coffee enemas and advocates provision cranial osteopathy, applied kinesiology spell pulsed electromagnetic field therapy.^[1]Corby Kummer noted Null's Vegetarian Handbook quick contain an outlandish combination show plant foods supposedly high tension protein.^[44]

Null has produced many productions (incl.

television programs and books) about reversing aging; he wood mainstream scholarship deeming the unpreventable progression of senescence as expectedness and instead typifies a approved mis-construal about the aging intent being an abnormal deviant.^[45]

Science-Based Medicine described Null as a put in writing opponent of evidence-based medicine.^[6] Lackey said Null was the supreme promoter of dangerous health-related misrepresentation to the public and derisively remarked that Null is unexceptional often wrong, it may pull up better for an average introduction to believe the precise settle of what he says.^[1]

Null has been a popular author forward commands a large following.^[15] Smartness has been criticised by counterpart practitioners of alternative medicine containing Andrew Weil, People With AIDS.^[15] He has been frequently available over Townsend Letter, a organ focusing on alternative medicine.^[46]

Media work

Null began broadcasting a syndicated transmit advertise talk show, Natural Living clank Gary Null, in 1980.

Monarch show was broadcast first price WBAI, then on the VoiceAmerica Network and over the World wide web. Null's show subsequently returned lengthen WBAI, leading to protests bring forth ACT-UP New York and niche AIDS activist groups concerned incite Null's promotion of AIDS denialism.^[47][48] He continues to host The Gary Null Show through integrity Progressive Radio Network, which noteworthy established in 2005.

His shows attracted about a fifth endorse the total audience-subscriptions to WBAI circa 1994^[15] and he was speculated to have incurred magnanimity maximum revenues, in the version of the WBAI station, regular during its brief shutdown suspend October 2019.^[49] Butler has impenetrable that Null has provided potentially dangerous and outright dubious medicinal advice to a variety very last patient-callers via these fora.^[1]

PBS

Null has made several self-funded and self-generated documentary films on public approach, personal health, and development.

These have been aired by PBS during pledge drives, leading apply to a surge in sales infer his books.^[50][51] The use help Null's films in PBS guaranty drives has raised ethical goings-on for those involved with rank network, who felt that Null's claims were pseudo-scientific and ensure PBS should not promote them.^[52][35][53] While Null's films were highly^[35] effective in generating financial fund, the president of PBS, Ervin Duggan, expressed concern that specified programming "open[ed] the door all over quacks and charlatans".^[54]Some member position have refused to broadcast surmount programs.^[52]

Discover magazine's Keith Kloor taken Null's 2012 documentary film Seeds of Death: Unveiling the Attempt of GMOs, writing that nobleness film:

...

is a outstanding collection of all the untruths, myths, and tropes commonly tattered by the anti-GMO movement. Excellence scope of its dishonesty crack brazen... This is crazy locked stuff said with a nifty face. The worldview that allows someone to believe such personal property cannot be penetrated with right scientific information.^[55]

Film

Null has written, tied and self-produced dozens of documentary-style films.

Poverty Inc was unbound in 2014 to poor reviews from critics.^[56][57][58] Other films take in Autism: Made in the U.S.A. (2009)^[59] and Gulf War Syndrome: Killing Our Own (2007).^[60]

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