32 Facts About Gary Null

Gary Michael Null was born on January 6,1945 and is an American talk radio host and author who advocates pseudoscientific alternative medicine and produces a line of questionable dietary supplements.

Gary Null has promoted a range of pseudo-scientific and ineffective alternative treatments, including ones for cancer.

Gary Null holds strong anti-vaccination views and rejects the scientific consensus on topics such as water fluoridation, genetically modified organisms, and electromagnetic fields.

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

Gary Null holds an associate degree in business administration from the two-year, for-profit Mountain State College in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and a bachelor's degree from Thomas Edison State College in human nutrition.

Gary Null says he became interested in nutrition shortly after that while he was working as a part-time cook in New York City.

At the time of Gary Null's education, Edison State College was a non-traditional institute that had no campus and conferred degrees via an external degree program, and towards which administrators evaluated "college-level learning achieved through work or life experiences, self-study, college courses taken previously, industry-sponsored education programs, military instruction" and other prior learning.

Kurt Butler's 1992 book Consumer's Guide to Alternative Medicine raised similar questions and reported that Gary Null had long dodged queries about providing any relevant information for his degrees.

Gary Null is hostile to many facets of mainstream medicine, arguing that physicians and pharmaceutical companies have an economic interest in promoting rather than preventing sickness, and he has regularly asserted that all diseases are caused by nutritional deficiencies which can be cured by nutritional supplements.

In place of standard medical therapy, Gary Null advocated alternative cancer treatments such as Krebiozen, laetrile and Gerson therapy, asserting that "the alternatives have been covered up by those science writers of the national news media who ride shotgun for the medical establishment's solid-gold cancer train".

Gary Null has advocated for the long-debunked Revici's chemotherapy in one of his radio-shows.

In 1985, Gary Null began writing a lengthy series of reports for Penthouse titled "Medical Genocide" that asserted mainstream medicine was completely ineffective in curing a range of major ailments from cardiac diseases to arthritis.

Gary Null produced a variety of audio-visual media featuring other denialists, who spread misinformation about HIV tests and even alleged of anti-retroviral therapy to be the causative agent of AIDS; the OPV AIDS hypothesis was propounded for the first time over one of his radio-shows, by a fellow foot-soldier.

Some of Gary Null's productions portrayed those patients as the real heroes, who rejected anti-retroviral therapy in favor of his nutrition-based regimen.

Gary Null's articles have been featured over the website of Peter Duesberg.

In 2010, Gary Null reported that he became ill and had to see his doctor and that six other consumers were hospitalized for vitamin D poisoning after ingesting a nutritional supplement manufactured by his own contractor.

Gary Null received numerous telephone calls from customers while himself in severe pain.

Gary Null had been a keynote speaker at a rally opposing mandatory H1N1 influenza vaccination during the 2009 flu pandemic, leading the New York State Department of Health to hold a simultaneous conference to dismiss Gary Null's claims about the vaccine as "not scientifically credible" by discussing the clinical trials.

Gary Null had opposed public vaccination deeming them as unsafe and ineffective treatments; he has promoted discredited notions of vaccines causing autism and other ailments, including leading to infant death.

Gary Null has been a supporter of touch therapy and magnet therapy, both of which have been long determined to not provide any tangible health benefits.

Gary Null has promoted homeopathy, vouched for pangamic acid to be Vitamin B15.

Gary Null recommends coffee enemas and advocates for cranial osteopathy, applied kinesiology and pulsed electromagnetic field therapy.

Gary Null has been a popular author and commands a large following.

Gary Null has been criticised by fellow practitioners of alternative medicine including Andrew Weil, People With AIDS.

Gary Null has been frequently published over Townsend Letter, a periodical focusing on alternative medicine.

Gary Null's show was broadcast first on WBAI, then on the VoiceAmerica Network and over the Internet.

Gary Null's show subsequently returned to WBAI, leading to protests from ACT-UP New York and other AIDS activist groups concerned by Gary Null's promotion of AIDS denialism.

Gary Null continues to host The Gary Null Show through the Progressive Radio Network, which he established in 2005.

Gary Null's shows attracted about a fifth of the total audience-subscriptions to WBAI circa 1994 and he was speculated to have incurred the maximum revenues, in the history of the WBAI station, even during its brief shutdown in October 2019.

Butler has written that Gary Null has provided potentially dangerous and outright dubious medical advice to a variety of patient-callers via these fora.

Gary Null has made several self-funded and self-produced documentary films on public policy, personal health, and development.

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