By the looks of it, Ethan A Huff is a very busy reporter. Or, rather, a very busy poster. Content under his byline appears across various conspiracy, climate denial and anti-vaxx blogs like the Epoch Times, Natural News, NewsTarget, Climate.News, Science Clowns, Propaganda.News and elsewhere.
In just the past week Huff published stories about how climate alarmists are working with the LGBT community to depopulate the planet, how vaccines are causing polio and YouTube and other online giants are covering up this vaccine-caused polio outbreak, how 600,000 Mexicans were protesting abortion and “LGBT indoctrination,” as well as stories on Greta Thunberg, white people not being allowed to speak anymore, Hillary Clinton threatening Ronan Farrow, a Chinese bitcoin farm catching fire, Blizzard appeasing China, Johnson and Johnson facing lawsuits, vaping, Trump claiming Big Pharma is behind the impeachment hoax, climate scientists lying, and real scientists declaring there’s no climate emergency.
Aside from his prolific posting, there doesn’t seem to be any indication that he actually exists. Unlike most reporters, including others at some of his outlets, we couldn’t find a Twitter account associated with his name. There’s also no LinkedIn accounts or Facebook profiles that fit the bill.
What’s more, only one of the many sites he posts to list any contact info, such as an email address or phone number for readers to send tip. CriticalStudies.org, where he posted two stories in 2015, has a profile for him with both his picture and a contact email (ethan@huff.com). We found a picture associated with his name, and a reverse image search comes up empty, so maybe he is real.
But Huff.com is a real estate website, and an email sent to that address asking if he is indeed a real person bounced back, indicating the account doesn’t exist.
Having no way for the public to contact him hasn’t stopped him from producing content, though.
And the content Huff pushes out is… something. Back in 2015 he wrote about an ancient therapy to “reactivate a calcified pineal gland”: staring into the sun for 40 minutes a day. This prompted a response from Debunking Denialism that pointed out that a calcified pineal gland isn’t a real problem, and staring at the sun is obviously not a solution for anything except not being blind.
A more recent fact-check debunked an anti-vaxx story, while another debunked a climate denial piece.
But neither addressed whether or not Ethan exists, or is some sort of bot network that automatically aggregates content to post to various websites, or is the pen name of a group of interns cobbling content together, or what.
So if you’re out there, Ethan, drop us a line. We just want a little proof of life…