Sayer Ji

Sayer Ji (born October 10, 1972) is the founder of alternative medicine portal GreenMedInfo, a website that aggregates and indexes selected research citations from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database on topics related to natural and integrative health. The website has been accused by critics, including McGill University's Office for Science and Society, of promoting pseudoscientific interpretations of medical research by providing "a highly selective slice of the biomedical literature, biased toward positive results for natural ingredients and spun to make bad studies look better".

As of 2021, annual subscription plans to GreenMedInfo range from $75 to $850. In 2019, the website claimed some one million views per month.

Social media disinformation

Ji denies being an anti-vaccine activist, despite being identified by the Center for Countering Digital Hate as one of the "prominent people who oppose vaccines" and promote vaccine misinformation. Jonathan Jarry of McGill University wrote: "Ji, who is anti-vaccination and anti-GMO, has no scientific training."

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) identified Ji as one of twelve individuals promoting most of the misinformation that can be found online about vaccines, along with his spouse (at the time) Kelly Brogan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Christiane Northrup, Ty and Charlene Bollinger, and supplement giant Joseph Mercola.

Meta, formerly Facebook, rejoined that the CCDH did not clearly explain how they surveyed the posts on the site, countering that posts from the twelve named profiles were responsible for only about 0.05% of all views of vaccine-related content on Facebook. Nevertheless, Meta confirmed that they had removed or otherwise penalized vaccine misinformation content associated with each of the twelve accounts.

He promotes anti-vaccination videos sold by Ty and Charlene Bollinger and receives a commission whenever his referrals result in a sale, a practice known as affiliate marketing. He used this network of affiliates to help Brogan expand her own audience. The couple often appeared together in videos promoting their respective products and workshops, presenting their relationship in spiritual terms, such as "Our Spiral Path".

Ji falsely claimed on Facebook that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine killed more people than the virus itself. Like Brogan, he also discouraged the public from using face masks to limit the spread of the virus. Other information presented by Ji and GreenMedInfo has been flagged as false or misleading.

In 2020, both Twitter and Instagram removed GreenMedInfo from their platform as part of their efforts to limit the spread of misinformation about COVID-19. Pinterest had already banned Ji in 2018.

Ji participated in an online fundraising event to support the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The round table, held June 27, 2023, brought together several prominent anti-vaccination activists, such as Mikki Willis, Del Bigtree, Charles Eisenstein, Sherri Tenpenny and Joe Mercola. He has since distanced himself from Kennedy, disagreeing with his stance on the Gaza war.

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