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(NaturalNews) Last week, we posted a survey asking our readers to rate the "trustworthiness" of various health news websites, as well as the personality traits of some of the more notable invididuals in the industry, including Dr. Gary Null, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Stephen Barrett (the Quackwatch doc) and several others. I also put my own name in the chart to allow readers to rate my personality, too.

I received a lot of responses after launching this survey. Rick Malter from the Malter Institute (http://www.malterinstitute.org) e-mailed me a brilliant analysis of the underlying archetypes of the various health industry personalities, Dr. Mercola sent me an e-mail applauding the survey, and numerous readers sent responses ranging from hilarious to sobering. It's worth noting here, by the way, that since this survey was initiated here on NaturalNews, it has an inherent bias towards the views and beliefs of NaturalNews readers, of course, who I happen to think are the brightest and best-informed people in the world (please add one to my "nice" score for buttering up the readers next time okay?).

This also means that the personalities in the survey who recommend precisely the opposite of the positions mentioned here on NaturalNews would not be expected to fare well in this survey. Dr. Stephen Barrett, in particular, was not rated highly (see below for details). I imagine that if Dr. Barrett released this same survey on his own website, the results would be different. I invite Dr. Barrett to run this survey on his website and see...

PROFESSIONAL NOTE: I have decided to replace the "negative" terminology in describing these results, since in compiling these results, I didn't feel it would be very professional for this website to describe someone as, for example, "97% stupid." So I'm eliminating the negative terminology and leaving only the positive terminology. But please know that this still tells you everything you need to know because someone who was rated as "3% intelligent" was therefore rated as "97% stupid." I'm just removing the word "stupid" and replacing it with the word "not" (see below).

In other words, the original questions in the survey used the following terminology (which is what people voted on):

Humble / Arrogant
Generous / Greedy
Healthy / Unhealthy
Authentic / Fake
Intelligent / Stupid
Honest / Dishonest
Informed / Uninformed

But for the analysis below, I am replacing this terminology with the following, more polite words:

Humble / Not
Generous / Not
Healthy / Not
Authentic / Not
Intelligent / Not
Honest / Not
Informed / Not

STATISTICAL NOTE: For the percentages shown here, I took the total votes cast for each news source or personality, and then calculated the percentages from there. This adjusts the percentages to remove "no votes" or "skipped votes" for each source or personality. In other words, the percentages shown below are calculated only from the votes cast for that line item of the survey. Many survey respondents skipped lines on purpose because they were not necessarily familiar with that particular news source or person. The total number of participants in the entire survey is 1,337.

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