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This video picks up where I left off in my
previous commentary on my recent Fox News interview. This continues my commentary
on how Fox News used deception to mislead viewers.
Click play on the video to the right to view the video. Alternatively, a written
transcript is provided below for those who cannot view videos.
FOX NEWS REPORTER: Yet, all of this hasn't stopped his books from hitting The
New York Times Best Seller List. His latest to hit the establishment hard is,
The Great Bird Flu Hoax.
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Another lie. I told this reporter that my latest book was "Sweet Deception";
it was a better book. But did they focus on that? No. They focused on "The
Bird Flu Hoax" because it would be more controversial.
FOX NEWS REPORTER: Do you enjoy that role?
DR. MERCOLA: I do. I do. It's something --- I like to be controversial. I like
to be at the leading edge.
FOX NEWS REPORTER: To stay ahead of the curve, Mercola gives out hundreds of
pages of free information on his website.
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Another piece of misinformation. I told this reporter several times that
we had over 100,000 pages of free information on the site. And what does he
say on the air? "Hundreds." More distortions and lies.
And then, they show our staff in this video clip, and they make it appear
that these are the people who are writing our content. I never told them that.
What they are showing is a portion of our customer service team. For our customer
service team, we hired 50 people to make sure that we give outstanding service.
In fact, we've implemented a survey. If you've bought anything on our
site, you will notice that we have actively encouraged you to rate us, to
give us feedback, to let us know how we're doing, and I've got to tell you
the results of this feedback. You can rate us from 0 to 10, and we find that
75% of the feedback that we get from people who connect with us are rating
us 9 or 10; that's excellent, stupendous, outstanding service. We are absolutely
committed to providing you incredible service.
FOX NEWS REPORTER: ….. which has several staffers, updating full time.
To pay for that, he hawks products full time too.
DR. MERCOLA: Any non-stick surface will have the same consequences.
FOX NEWS REPORTER: Not just supplements, but even things like Teflon-free,
cooking pans.
DR. MERCOLA: One of the recommendations I give to people is, if they're having
a bizarre, medical symptom, to just try getting rid of your non-stick cookware.
FOX NEWS REPORTER: A business venture, you may notice, not unlike the for-profit,
pharmaceutical industry he criticizes.
DR. MERCOLA: It costs us millions of dollars to provide this infrastructure
to do this, and we need to sell products to subsidize that process, and it's
just like any other business, and that's what we do.
FOX NEWS REPORTER: Well, it's just like the pharmaceutical companies.
DR. MERCOLA: It's, you know ---- absolutely.
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
I made a critical mistake here. As I said previously, I had a pre-existing
relationship with the reporter, incidentally, and I thought I was on friendly
turf. Had I realized the exact opposite was true, I would have never answered
the question, to allow the producer to conveniently edit out and delete what
I said right after I answered this, which was an explanation of the fact that,
although there are similarities, the drug companies are selling products,
drugs, that can kill tens of thousands of people a year. And in fact, in the
case of Vioxx, 60,000 people were killed from taking that drug.
I've got to ask you: How many people are dying from taking natural supplements?
In a year, that number is probably single digits or lower.
FOX NEWS REPORTER: Medical maverick or on-line opportunist? Say what you want.
His message is hitting your home computer.
CLIP FROM ONE OF DR. MERCOLA'S EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS:
"…… need to do some cleaning in your body."
FOX NEWS REPORTER: Dr. Mercola says, three or four million new viewers check
out his website every month, 60 million web customers a year. Business is good
enough that he's now planning to move from his cramped, Schaumburg offices that
you saw there, to a new 35,000 foot facility soon.
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Well, folks, I learned my lesson. I will never give another interview
to FOX News because their slogan, "Fair and balanced," is more truthfully,
"Distortion and deception." And if you don't believe that, I would
encourage you to visit this link that we just put on our site that's an hour-and-15-minute
video that reviews the long-reported history that FOX News has of bias and
their inability to tell the truth accurately.
Now, is FOX News the only media that's doing this? Certainly not. But
they seem to be leading the pack.
Now, if you watch this video, I would encourage you: Do not focus on the
political affiliations in that video. I am not a Republican. I am not a Democrat.
I'm an advocate for the truth, and the truth is that, every year, we are spending
over $2 trillion in the U.S. alone for a fatally-flawed healthcare system
that is killing hundreds of thousands of people every year, simply because
they do not have the understanding, an awareness, of the alternatives to potentially-toxic
and expensive medications.
It is the commitment and the mission of this site to align with other
organizations to increase the awareness, the consciousness, of these types
of alternatives, so that people can have access to inexpensive resources that
will move them towards health and away from disease. Hopefully, you agree
with this mission, and you will join us in our efforts to increase this awareness
in the future.
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