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posted by martyb on Tuesday January 30 2018, @12:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the "think-of-the-children"-is-not-working-out-so-well-here dept.

A "cult" has been implicated in cases of parents forcing their children to drink bleach as an autism cure (and surprisingly, it's not the cult known as 4chan):

Parents are making their children drink industrial bleach to cure them of autism—with the potentially deadly practice linked back to a U.S. cult. According to British tabloid the Sunday People, six British police forces have probed cases in which children as young as two have been forced to undergo the potentially lethal treatment.

The treatment being administered is CD (Chloride Dioxide) or MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution)—with a secret Facebook group touting its use to desperate parents in the U.K. The method has been promoted by a controversial U.S. church with a branch in Los Angeles - the secretive Genesis II Church, founded by Jim Humble, a former scientologist.

A 2016 investigation by Eyewitness News and ABC News found an underground network clustered in southern California promoting MMS on Facebook as a cure for ailments including cancer, Parkinsons, and autism in children.

The previous year the BBC exposed a secret conference in which leading figures from the church travelled to the U.K. to promote the use of MMS, which it claims is a non-dangerous religious sacrament. They believe that autism is caused by pathogens and parasites, which Chloride Dioxide kills. Doctors say that the claims of adherents are groundless, the solution is untested and can cause serious harm.

Bleach: the drink of choice for sophisticated memers.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by meustrus on Tuesday January 30 2018, @03:08PM (2 children)

    by meustrus (4961) on Tuesday January 30 2018, @03:08PM (#630386)

    So if I get this straight, you give your child MMS to "cure" them of the "parasites" they got from the mercury in MMR vaccines? Or is the similar acronym purely coincidence?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:44PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:44PM (#630487) Journal

    Purely coincidence, I'd guess.

    The funny thing is that Chlorine Dioxide (one product of the mix reaction) IS used for water purification on an industrial scale. And you young whippersnappers might not remember when Sodium Hypochlorite (Clorox) was in fact recommended for water purification also. In fact, it still is for disasters: https://www.clorox.com/dr-laundry/disaster-preparedness-purifying-water/ [clorox.com] Both are excellent broad-spectrum antimicrobials.

    That said, the reason that the Wikipedia article on Bleach carries the medical warnings and why this other Chlorine Dioxide shouldn't be used is that it's damned easy to overdose on the stuff. The side effects are heavy, including death, if you screw it up. And even if you get it right, you're probably going to kill off a bunch of other gut bacteria that is helpful to your body and digestion, too. ("Bugs bad! Squash all bugs!" kills you too.)

    Dropping gas on the fire, the science may not be all that funny either. At least there's a 2017 journal article on use of Suramin (an antiprotozoan for Chagas disease/African Sleeping Sickness) and temporary improvement of Autism Spectrum Disorder symptoms. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acn3.424/full [wiley.com] That said, there is no conclusion I read when I scanned the article that there's actually a gut connection to autism. The mechanisms of autism still are not well understood AFAIK other than there being neuronal issues, and the Suramin apparently acts neurologically to suppress purinergic pathway signalling. It's action as an antiprotozoan is unknown.

    That said, there's no known link between microorganisms and ASD either. So don't take the above as Gospel. ;) Just interesting coincidence. But it is so delicious to draw unwarranted conclusions, like the MMS people apparently have.

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  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday January 31 2018, @07:50PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Wednesday January 31 2018, @07:50PM (#631126)

    Please stop modding this informative. MMS and anti-vaccine are two groups of crazy people and I was trying to make a joke about their acronyms.

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