18 Facts About Joseph Mercola

Joseph Michael Mercola is an American alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and Internet business personality.

Joseph Mercola is a member of several alternative medicine organizations as well as the political advocacy group Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which promotes scientifically discredited views about medicine and disease.

Quackwatch has criticized Joseph Mercola for making "unsubstantiated claims [that] clash with those of leading medical and public health organizations and many unsubstantiated recommendations for dietary supplements".

Joseph Mercola's mother, Jeanette Aldridge was a waitress and his father, Thomas Nicholas Mercola, was an Air Force veteran who worked for Marshall Field's, a department store in Chicago.

Joseph Mercola attended Lane Tech College Prep High School and studied biology and chemistry at the University of Illinois, graduating in 1976.

Joseph Mercola stopped treating patients in 2009 to work full-time on his health products and vitamin supplements business.

Joseph Mercola has written two books which have been listed on the New York Times bestseller list: The No-Grain Diet and The Great Bird Flu Hoax.

Joseph Mercola has appeared on The Dr Oz Show and The Doctors.

Researchers say that Joseph Mercola employs teams in Florida and the Philippines who translate his posts into multiple languages and then post them to groups of websites and social media accounts.

Joseph Mercola is a critic of vaccines and vaccination policy, claiming that too many vaccines are given too soon during infancy.

Joseph Mercola co-funded an anti-vaccination ad in Times Square in 2011.

Joseph Mercola has asserted that thimerosal, a vaccine preservative, is harmful due to its mercury content.

In 2020, Joseph Mercola was one of the partners in a website called "Stop Covid Cold" offering advice to the public on preventing and treating COVID-19 with alternative remedies.

In May 2021, Joseph Mercola announced he would remove mentions of COVID-19 from his websites, blaming Bill Gates and "big pharma".

Joseph Mercola was warned by the US Food and Drug Administration in February 2021 for selling fake COVID-19 cures.

Joseph Mercola argued that Google, who owns YouTube, violated their provision of giving users an opportunity to remove any of their content to comply with a new policy and asked for $75,000 in damages.

Joseph Mercola co-authored a book with Ronnie Cummins, the founder of the Organic Consumers Association, titled The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal: Why We Must Unite in a Global Movement for Health and Freedom.

Joseph Mercola's July 10,2021 video which garnered over 95 thousand views, said that COVID-19 vaccine, was an "experimental gene therapy" that would destroy millions of lives.