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AlterNet is an Alternative interNet liberal news outlet. They cover topics left out of mainstream "corporate media" (such as positive coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement) and expose underhanded establishment politicians and businesses. Trouble is, they have a bad habit of indulging in woo. In many ways, they're like a more aggressive HuffPo: as long as they're not talking about science outside of evolution, cosmology or climate change, they're okay.

## Contents

* 1 Good stuff
* 1.1 Occupy Wall Street
* 1.2 Feminism and misogyny
* 2 Bad stuff
* 2.1 Pseudoscience
* 2.2 Assadist propaganda
* 3 External links
* 4 References

## Good stuff[edit]

### Occupy Wall Street[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Occupy Wall Street

AlterNet devoted an inordinate amount of digital ink to the topic of Occupy Wall Street.[1] They, along with a handful of other independent media outlets, gave decent and fair coverage of the events happening at Zucotti Park and other Occupy movements that were happening throughout the world.

### Feminism and misogyny[edit]

See the main articles on this topic: Feminism and Misogyny

AlterNet is one of a very few internet media sources that does not cater to MRA's shouting MISANDRY![2] They frequently host articles addressing sexual violence and assault, dealing with women in video games and generally about how treating women terribly is a bad thing and what it does to not only women, but also men in society.

## Bad stuff[edit]

### Pseudoscience[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Pseudoscience

AlterNet has a bad habit of promoting woo. The worst of these is by far their stance on GMOs: they stridently avoid asking actual scientists' opinions on the topic or reading a single peer-reviewed paper by them on the subject (aside from those by this dipshit[3]), have frequently misrepresented data regarding transgenic organisms[4] and will happily castigate anyone that doesn't toe the quack line.[5] As if that's not bad enough, AlterNet has even dabbled in a little bit of radiophobia[6] and thinks toothpaste is bad for your health.[7]

On the upside, AN has taken it upon itself to trashing Whole Foods Market Inc largely for its Libertarian "fuck you, got mine" stance.[8][9] Sadly, it seems that attacking those cultish, pseudoscience positions would be rather hypocritical for the rag.

### Assadist propaganda[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Syria

AlterNet used to host The Grayzone Project, a space for the alleged Kremlin-linked[citation needed] Assadist Max Blumenthal and his protege Ben Norton to express their admiration for the lion of Damascus, and attack any perceived opponents of the Syrian regime by branding them radical Islamists. Such opponents included the White Helmets,[10] Syrian children who suffered gas attacks and were accused of faking it, and of course, any Western journalists who dared to say that maybe chemical attacks on Syria’s own people aren’t super great for the image of anti-Imperialism which they purported to represent. Much of the claims published by these characters were subsequently disproven by the UN. Around February 2018, AlterNet finally pulled the plug on The Grayzone Project.[11] More simply known as The Grayzone, Blumenthal's project continues with opaque funding.

## External links[edit]

* AlterNet homepage

## References[edit]

1. ↑ As you can see here, they have an entire page dedicated to it.
2. ↑ Seriously, check it out!
3. ↑ Here is AlterNet running a story about the infamous Séralini paper as legitimate and accepted science.
4. ↑ Here is a story misrepresenting conclusions from a paper regarding glyphosate and kidney disease in places where the herbicide is used with hard water contamination in order to show how "MONSATAN is poisoning us with GMOs"!.
5. ↑ Here they are calling Mark Lynas a shill for Monsanto for discovering the actual science behind transgenic crops and thus no longer supporting anti-GMO woo.
6. ↑ Because cellphones emit RADIATION and RADIATION causes CANCER!
7. ↑ Because toothpaste contains fluoride (among other things) and it's an icky chemikill!
8. ↑ Mostly due to how it treats its workers as a whole...
9. ↑ ... and at the individual level.
10. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on White Helmets (Syrian Civil War).
11. ↑ Grayzone Project at alternet.org. This page still exists as of June 2018, although no posts from Blumenthal appear to have been posted since December 2017.

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Articles about food woo

Food woo: |  Nutritionist • Kymatika test • Superfoods • Haggis • Green tea • Bovine growth hormone • Microwave oven • Cat food • Raspberry ketone • Juicing • Orthorexia • Fortune cookie • Cayenne pepper • Soylent • Kopi luwak • Pete Evans • Raw honey • Apitherapy • Germ theory denialism • Omega-3 • Burusho • Chris Beat Cancer • Turmeric • Salt • Tripe • Vegetarianism • Pork • Water woo • Chocolate • Magnetic water treatment • In vitro meat • Agaricus • Locavore • Cyclamate • Freedom fries • Fast food • RationalWiki diet • Spot reduction • Breastfeeding • Sugar • Bottled water • Forks Over Knives • Pseudovitamin • Coffee • Dietary cholesterol • Humans are herbivores • Veganism • Hydrogen water • New Eden School of Natural Health • Irina Ermakova • Airborne • William Li • Center for Science in the Public Interest • Baby eating • Cannibalism • Super Size Me • Wine • Sandwich • Fish farming • The miracle of honey as an alternative medicine • Food irradiation • Soy boy • Heart Attack Grill • Probiotics • Obesity • Udo Pollmer • Bacon • Food woo • Insect • Jilly Juice • Spam •
| Promoters: |  American Association of Nutritional Consultants • John Fagan • Food Babe • GreenMedInfo • Organic Consumers Association • Vandana Shiva • Anti-Gym • Bulletproof diet • Joel Fuhrman • Harmonized H2O • Errol Denton • Gerson Therapy • MonaVie • Purity Products • Robert Young • Matt Cahill • Life Extension Foundation • Rick Scott • David Wolfe • Whole Foods Market • PETA • THINCS • Abd ul-Rahman Lomax • Jeffrey Smith • Jim Bakker • Mehmet Oz • Essene Gospel of Peace • John Heinerman • Institute for Natural Healing • Aseem Malhotra • Konstantin Monastyrsky • Marika Sboros • Malcolm Kendrick • Gary Taubes • Consumer Health Digest • Joel D. Wallach • James DiNicolantonio • Dwight Lundell • Chris Kresser • Frank Lipman • Carolyn Dean • William Davis • Anthony William • Josh Axe • Nasha Winters • H. L. Newbold • Tim Noakes • Zoë Harcombe • Annee de Mamiel • Sarah Palin • Weston A. Price Foundation • Michael Savage • Gary Null • H2Om • Nancy Appleton • Vinnie Tortorich • MeMe Roth • Environmental Working Group • Eric Berg • Varg Vikernes • Shawn Baker • Hunter Avallone • David Perlmutter • Jake Angeli • Church of Scientology • Kevin Trudeau • Kurt Saxon • Jack Dorsey • Steve Pavlina • TruthWiki • Lew Rockwell • Steve Jobs • NaturalNews • Jethro Kloss • Jordan Peterson • Jason Fung • Vegan Artbook • Paul Saladino • Ray Peat • Truthstream Media • Richard A. Passwater • Jimmy Moore • Max Lugavere • Vegan Gains • Tom Naughton • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. •
| Diet woo: |  Blood type diet • Breatharianism • Jesus diet • Lemonade diet • Ephedrine • Fasting • Inedia • Macrobiotics • Organic food • Raw foodism • Doughism • Alkaline diet • Self help • Paleo diet • French paradox • Nutritional supplement • Gerson Therapy • Herbalife • Vitamin D • Creatine • Raw milk movement • Gluten-free • Anti-oxidants • Squirrel diet • Vitamin and mineral supplements • Soy • Trans fat • Errol Denton • Coconut oil • Glycemic index • Isagenix • Subway diet • Agave nectar • Sweeteners • High-fructose corn syrup • Neti pot • Milk • Bulletproof diet • Pro-ana • Carnivora • Geophagia • Holland & Barrett • Weigh down diet • Clean living movement • Edward Howell • Bone broth • Palm oil • Jack Dorsey • Carrot • Diet soda • Food dye • Low-carb diet • Carnivore diet • Vitamin C • Steve Pavlina • Lew Rockwell • Steve Jobs • Jeanette Winterson • Onion • Helminthic therapy • Mediterranean diet • Fad diet •
| Supplement woo: |  Ellagic acid • Apple cider vinegar • Canola oil • Aspartame • Chlorella • Chlorophyll • Coconut oil • Creatine • E number • Rooibos tea • Açaí berry • Vitamin D • Salt woo • Matt Cahill • Vitamin and mineral supplements • Soylent Green • Rick Scott • Dietary supplements • Herbal supplement • Consumer Health Digest • Activated charcoal • CEASE therapy • Vitamin C •
| Toxin woo: |  Aspartame • Canola oil • Microwave • Broccoli • Cleanse • Chemophobia • Candida • Nitrites • Lead • Mercury • Trans fat • E number • Monosodium glutamate • Food allergy • DDT • Colloidal silver • Arsenic • Aristolochia • Alcohol • Median lethal dose • Ayahuasca • Activated charcoal • Water • Polonium • Botox • Radium • Uranium • Real Water • Toxin •
| Bodybuilding woo: |  ECA stack • Creatine • Ephedrine • Fad diet • Urban caveman movement • Anti-Gym • Human chorionic gonadotrophin • Bodybuilding woo • Broscience • Bold and Determined • Human growth hormone • The Golden One • Joe Rogan • Shawn Baker • Carnivore diet •
| GMO: |  March Against Monsanto • Monsanto • GMO A Go Go • Seeds of Death • Mark Lynas • Michael Pollan • GreenMedInfo • Judy Carman • Vandana Shiva • Bill Maher • Liberty Beacon • Food, Inc • Food Babe • Gilles-Eric Séralini • Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Glyphosate • FAQ on genetically modified food • Kevin Folta • Beppe Grillo • Jill Stein • TruthWiki • Genetically modified food • Golden Rice • Kyle Kulinski • The Non-GMO Project • Environmental Working Group • Fair trade • The Young Turks • Frank Lipman • American Academy of Environmental Medicine • Chidambaram Subramaniam • M.S. Swaminathan • Norman Borlaug • Percy Schmeiser • Jimmy Dore • Immortal Technique • David Dees • NaturalNews • Truthstream Media • Zachary K. Hubbard • Matt Walsh •