GreenMedInfo



GreenMedInfo.com is a website operated by Sayer Ji which opposes vaccination,   hates GMOs, is vehemently anti-fluoride, and promotes a wide range of assorted cancer woo. Kelly Brogan is Sayer Ji's partner and a frequent contributor to the site. In 2021, a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate listed Ji and Brogan as two of the "Disinformation Dozen," a group of 12 people responsible for about 65% of COVID-19 related misinformation circulating online.

Probably the truest statement on the website is the disclaimer at the bottom: "This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment."

Popularity
The GMI website was founded in 2008 "in order to provide the world an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative modalities", and appears to be a popular one. In July 2016, GMI's Facebook page had 390,000 likes (compare to crank mothership NaturalNews, which boasts 1,900,000 likes ). The website is ranked among the top 40 thousand by Alexa — still a significant amount of traffic.

Pseudoscience promotion
GMI presents many natural products as equal to or superior to all "modern" medicines/chemicals. GMI also promotes numerous conspiracy theories about Big Pharma and GMO-producing companies, such as Monsanto.

Ji, the site's founder, generally despises "modern" medicine — referring to it as "cannibalism" — and further declaring that evidence-based medicine is "as reliable as a coin flip". Ji has also attacked Science Blogs and Respectful Insolence for pointing out his quackery.

GMI also opposes animal research, without which biomedical science would grind to a halt (for veterinary medicine and the ability to treat sick animals, as well as for general medicine). GMI also takes gluten woo to new levels, alleging that eating wheat now causes schizophrenia.

Sayer Ji and GMI support cholesterol and statin denialism. GMI claim incorrectly that "a very small amount of a statin drug, 5mg per day, can kill a person."

They especially became notorious for spreading misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Ji claiming that more people were killed by the Pfizer vaccine than the coronavirus.

200 Evidence-Based Reasons NOT To Vaccinate
Perhaps GMI's worst example of fact-distortion and use of medical babble is their publication, 200 Evidence-Based Reasons NOT To Vaccinate, widely spread around the Internet. In typical Gish Gallop form, each of the 200 "reasons" is just the citation information of a single scientific study — GMI doesn't even bother to explain why each citation proves vaccines are bad.

When the studies are actually investigated, however, all of the studies either:
 * Prove vaccination is not the cause of the problem
 * Note that the studies are small and weak, or come from extremely questionable researchers (like the Geier family)

The publication seems impressive only because it is long — and seems designed to overwhelm casual readers into thinking that a large scientific literature attacking vaccinations exists.

Kelly Brogan
The science of psychiatry is [a] myth. GMI posts articles from one of their lead contributors, Kelly Brogan, whom they describe as:

Which is a way of saying "crank quack" that just takes forever.

Brogan is a zealous proponent of the anti-psychiatry movement, arguing — among other things — for the importance of not proactively aiding potential school shooters with sorely needed medication. She has also collaborated with Gwyneth Paltrow's "Goop" and is a COVID denier.

Article formula


GMI's articles follow a formula: GMI finds a recent scientific publication, summarizes it for a few paragraphs, and tacks on several paragraphs that are only tangentially related to the article about how it proves [X alternative medicine is correct] and/or [modern medicine is a sham]. Not only does this lend credibility to his writing, it also makes his job easier &mdash; he doesn't need to come up with new content, just repeat work other people have done.

For example, in "New Study Links GMO Food To Leukemia", Ji begins with a summary of the study:

Ji continues with a brief history of Bt toxins and lists the four most extreme conclusions of the study. He then concludes that — surprise surprise! — this means that GMOs are evil and should be banned:

This is all despite the fact that the study wasn't on GMF toxins &mdash; but instead on whole-bacteria toxins, used by organic farmers. As Biology Fortified writes: