# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-mercola
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:49:39.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-mercola"
name: "Joseph Mercola"
slug: "joseph-mercola"
description: "Joseph Michael Mercola is an American alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and Internet business personality. He markets largely unproven dietary supplements and medical devices. On his website, Mercola and colleagues advocate unproven and pseudoscientific alternative health notions including homeopathy and opposition to vaccination. These positions have received persistent criticism. Mercola is a member of several alternative medicine organizations as well as the political advocacy group Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which promotes scientifically discredited views about medicine and disease. He is the author of two books."
tagline: "American alternative medicine proponent and purveyor of anti-vaccination misinformation"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Mercola_-_International_Vaccine_Conference_2009_Speech.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.41
  momentum:             0.6366047745358089
  historical:           8.706025333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mercola.com"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Mercola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola"
    title: "Joseph Mercola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola"
    title: "Joseph Mercola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80%ED%94%84_%EB%A8%B8%EC%BD%9C%EB%9D%BC"
    title: "조지프 머콜라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Mercola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Меркола, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Michael_Mercola"
    title: "Joseph Michael Mercola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6285513"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump