Many great Alternet writers will be hurt by this

Alternet readers outraged

Join me in calling for Alternet to retract its disinformation article

(NaturalNews) When it comes to watching online publishers self destruct, it doesn't get any more bizarre than this. Left-leaning Alternet, a news source that has long enjoyed a reputation of putting out respectable content on issues like civil liberties and social justice, has just committed "integrity suicide" by publishing an article that spreads irrational fear about taking vitamins.The article, published in Alternet's "Personal Health" section and written by Lynn Stuart Parramore, claims "vitamins could shorten your lifespan." It's an unabashed sellout to the Dr. Paul Offit "vitamin doomsday" agenda that attempts to spread total fear about vitamins and nutrition in order to prop up pharmaceuticals and vaccines. In running this article and headlining it on its website, Alternet abandons its history of questioning the status quo and just flat-out whores itself out to corporate interests. Click here to read the disinfo article yourself . It might as well be a press release from Merck.What a shame. There are so many other great writers on Alternet that to see its reputation ruined by Parramore is going to hurt a lot of great writers who will go down with the ship. The public isn't stupid. They see right through this Big Pharma propaganda. They know when a publication has sold out to corporate interests, and any online publication can implode almost overnight, losing its readers because it violates that sacred trust by betraying the people.As I always remind myself here at Natural News, there is zero reader loyalty to a domain name or even an author. There is only. This is also known as "integrity." If you have integrity, readers will keep coming back. If you forfeit your integrity by selling out to corporate interests, readers will immediately label you a back-stabber and they will simply stop visiting your site. You've just been crossed off their increasingly short list of websites to visit.This is why Alternet has just made an enormous mistake. By publishing Parramore's article, Alternet just stabbed its readers in the back with Big Pharma propaganda and agenda-driven disinformation about nutrition. The article actually implies that taking multivitamins might kill you. It's an agenda-driven propaganda message spearheaded by the vaccine pusher Dr. Paul Offit (who also makes money from vaccines) and blindly repeated in the New York Times, Washington Post, TV shows and now Alternet, which has suddenly become an enemy of nutrition.If you're taking vitamins to stay health and prevent disease -- for example taking vitamin D to prevent cancer -- then you're a sucker for "medical myths," claims Alternet. You may even be "more likely to die," the article explains.What total bullshit. Is this what Alternet has now become? A mouthpiece for drug company interests?So all you people out there making superfood smoothies, boosting your nutrition with food-based supplements, eating chlorella , taking vitamin D and so on are now essentially being called idiots by Alternet. You're a retard for boosting your nutritional intake, the article implies. You'd be much better off popping pharmaceuticals and injecting yourself with vaccines than swallowing those "dangerous" things called "nutrients" for God's sake!Nowhere in the article is there any discussion whatsoever about the fact the all the studies cited in the article were conducted on. They intentionally formulate their vitamins with synthetic chemicals that are mislabeled "vitamins." They also use inorganic forms of minerals that can't be digested. The whole purpose of this is to make sure so-called "multivitamins" don't work.But once you move to high-end, food-based nutrients like those offered by the Megafood company (or Pure Synergy and many others), you getfrom taking these vitamins. And nutrients like vitamin D have been shown to help prevent up to 78% of all cancers, all by itself!Alternet, it seems, chose not to mention that part of the story. Instead, they're parroting the Paul Offit quackery and fearmongering: Vitamins might kill you! Be afraid of nutrition!Alternet's readers, fortunately, seem to be far better informed about nutrition than Alternet's writer (Parramore). Here are some of their actual comments found after the story:For the record, Lynn Stuart Parramore cherry picked the studies she cited in the story, ignoring the overwhelming body of scientific evidence supporting the benefits of supplemental nutrition. And in doing that, she reveals herself to be a disgusting excuse for a sellout journalist... exactly the kind of person that Alternet used to rally. I remember a time when Alternet was an independent, anti-establishment publication that actually challenged the status quo, especially during the Bush administration. Alternet was anti-war, anti-imperialism, anti-surveillance and anti-Bush. What the heck happened?I'm calling on Alternet toand issue a public apology to its readers. There's no other way to say this: Alternet is now shoveling corporate bullshit and calling it headline news. (Sorry about all the profanity in this article, folks. But sometimes it actually means something.)I mean, seriously: What's next for Alternet? Are they going to come out and announce support for Monsanto and GMOs, too? It wouldn't surprise me. Any website opposed to sensible nutritional supplementation (and pushing Big Pharma's anti-nutrition message) is sooner or later going to line up behind all the other destructive corporate interests. Pretty soon it will be, "Alternet. Sponsored by Pfizer. Free vaccine coupon for all Alternet readers!"You can contact Alternet here:Tell 'em that if they want their reputation to mean anything, they need to retract this nonsense article and ban the nutritional moron known as "Parramore" from writing about things that only prove what an ignorant fool she really is.And by the way, I've never written about Alternet before. I've got nothing whatsoever against the publication and I've actually sourced it many times in the past. I'd like to see it restore its integrity and continue to function as a trusted alternative news source. But now I'm seriously wondering if Alternet has been bought off, sold out, hijacked or somehow turned over to corporate interests.I guess we'll soon find out.I will share one more thing with you all, by the way: I will NEVER allow Natural News to intentionally publish the kind of corporate-sellout crap that Alternet just put on its front page. And if you ever see something like that on Natural News, it's a sure sign that I've been kidnapped at gunpoint and am being impersonated by a doppelganger.