Conscious Life News - Bias and Credibility (original) (raw)

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Detailed Report

Bias Rating: LEFT CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCEFactual Reporting: MIXED Country: USA MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY

History

Founded in 2010 by Ross Pittman, an energy healer, Conscious Life News is a hyper-partisan progressive left news and opinion website that primarily promotes junk pseudoscience and miracle cures. According to their about page, Pittman claims that “After witnessing this thirst for new-age knowledge, Ross built the CLN website and began disseminating alternative, conscious, and inspirational news.”

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Funded by / Ownership

Ross Pittman owns Conscious Life News, and revenue is derived through advertising.

Analysis / Bias

In review, Conscious Life news publishes news stories related to holistic healing, alternative medicine, and spiritual news. For example, they cover chemtrails, astrology & numerology, aliens, and cancer cures: The Over-the-Counter Cancer Cure You’re Not Supposed to Know About. In general, this website promotes information that is considered pseudoscience by definition: According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Science and Pseudoscience, “Philosophers and other theoreticians of science differ widely in their views on what science is. Nevertheless, there is virtual unanimity in the community of knowledge disciplines on most particular issues of demarcation. There is a widespread agreement, for instance, that creationism, astrology, homeopathy, Kirlian photography, dowsing, ufology, ancient astronaut theory, Holocaust denialism, Velikovskian catastrophism, and climate change denialism are pseudosciences.“

Politically, Conscious Life news favors the progressive left and denigrates the right, such as Are You Addicted to Trump News? You’re Not Alone, and This Is My Religion: Bernie Sanders’ Response to a “Trick Question”.

Failed Fact Checks

Overall, we rate Conscious Life News a progressive left Quackery level Pseudoscience website based on promoting unknown and unproven claims. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting rather than Low because they sometimes publish news supported by science. (D. Van Zandt 7/20/2016) Updated (03/13/2024)

Source: https://consciouslifenews.com/