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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.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by donkeyhotay on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:04PM (5 children)
Great. Soylent is now, apparently, getting its news from tabloids.
Meanwhile, Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway are partnering up in some sort of scheme to provide healthcare -- real news from real news sources -- and not a word on Soylentnews about it.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by redneckmother on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:14PM
Judging from that lineup, I suspect "provide healthcare" should have been "monetize healthcare".
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday January 30 2018, @06:32PM
Two of the sources in TFS are Newsweek and the BBC, so not exactly. The Tabloid is thrown in, I suspect, because of the excellent collection of color pictures accompanying the article, and for awesome quotes like "But it’s helped so many!"
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday January 30 2018, @09:06PM (2 children)
That article has 36 comments now. And I submitted both of them. And you haven't specified anything wrong with the information in TFS.
Think before you type.
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(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday January 30 2018, @10:24PM (1 child)
That right there is straight up worthy of a "you must be new here."
(Score: 3, Touché) by martyb on Wednesday January 31 2018, @12:06AM
Okaaay... "You must be new here." :)
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