People are Still Drinking Bleach-and Vomiting and Pooping their Guts Out:
The "Church of Bleach" is still strong, despite years of warnings.
The US Food and Drug Administration this week released an important health warning that everyone should heed: drinking bleach is dangerous—potentially life-threatening—and you should not do it.
The warning may seem unnecessary, but guzzling bleach is an unfortunately persistent problem. Unscrupulous sellers have sold "miracle" bleach elixirs for decades, claiming that they can cure everything from cancer to HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, flu, hair loss, and more. Some have promoted it to parents as a way to cure autism in children—prompting many allegations of child abuse.
Of course, the health claims are false, not to mention abhorrent. When users prepare the solution as instructed, it turns into the potent bleaching agent chlorine dioxide, which is an industrial cleaner. It's toxic to drink and can cause severe diarrhea, vomiting, life-threatening low blood pressure, acute liver failure, and damage to the digestive tract and kidneys.
In this week's warning, the FDA noted that some sellers will warn consumers that vomiting and diarrhea are common but say that those unpleasant effects indicate the solution is "working."
"That claim is false," the FDA wrote succinctly.
The agency released a nearly identical warning back in 2010. But in this week's consumer alert, the agency said that it has continued to receive "many reports" of consumers sickened by these bleach-based potions.
[...] The FDA says that the products have been hard to scrub out because of claims on social media, where the drinks are promoted along with false health information. Most of the claims can be traced back to Jim Humble, founder and "archbishop" of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, aka "The Church of Bleach."
Humble has been touting the solution for nearly two decades, referring to it as MMS—Miracle or Master Mineral Solution. (It's also known as the Miracle Mineral Supplement, the Chlorine Dioxide (CD) Protocol, and Water Purification Solution (WPS).) Humble is a former Scientologist who reportedly claims to be a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda galaxy.
I am at a loss for words. That someone has such low regard for other people that he would actively try and persuade parents to give a poison to a child — with autism — and claim the puking and diarrhea are proof it is working.
My heart goes out to the poor, defenseless kid! I just can't fathom. Speechless.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @01:36PM (10 children)
Medical experts have known since Parcelsus (~1500 AD according to the Scaligerian chronology) that "the does makes the poison". Apparently the FDA missed the memo:
https://modernsurvivalblog.com/health/make-drinking-water-safe-with-bleach/ [modernsurvivalblog.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday August 16 2019, @02:34PM (9 children)
Indeed. Which is why I absolutely refuse to eat any venison. /sarcasm
And "Scaligerian" is presumably meant as a dog-whistle to indicate that you don't believe in the standard historical chronology? Not sure I'm going to put a lot of stock in anything you say, then. (Though you are correct that an EXTREMELY diluted version of bleach can be used to help make water safe to drink, if used at very specific levels.)
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @02:51PM (7 children)
And you "believe in" it why? Because that is what the government taught you in school? It could be accurate, or not, but I am tired of people presenting history as some kind of unbiased sequence of facts when it is actually a patchwork of pieced together selectively surviving evidence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @03:56PM (4 children)
And not only that, but when it was originally formulated history needed to fit the "earth is 6000 years old" idea propounded by the catholic church of the time. So gaps were filled, reigns were left out, etc to make that work. Documents were fabricated, destroyed, or edited... Dogma was more important than truth to these people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:10PM (3 children)
The Roman Catholic Church has never been as stupid and anti-intellectual as the "young earth" fundamentalist "christians". Evangelicalism takes a special kind of stupid, an almost "bleach drinking" level of stupid, very close to "kool-aid drinking" stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:16PM
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/rbc/index.php/2012/08/29/of-time-and-type-joseph-scaligers-de-emendatione-temporum/ [unc.edu]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:55PM
Funnily enough. I was looking up some Scaliger stuff and came across this:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/751213 [jstor.org]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 17 2019, @02:31PM
To which Roman Catholic Church to you refer?
Allow me to point out one of the Church's worst offenses, IMO. For the most part, they didn't WANT the peasants to be literate. They didn't WANT peons to be able to debate the words found in the Bible. Your "intellectual" church preferred to keep men and women in fear, doing constant penance, while delivering those tithes. Your beloved church persecuted the original Protestants, for fun and profit. Arnaud Amalric, a good Catholic, is famous (or infamous) for his line, "Kill them all, God will know his own."
In it's earliest days, your claims may have applied. After a few centuries, your Roman Catholic church became a bed of apostasy, hell-bent on suppressing knowledge that might interfere with oppressing and exploiting the populace.
And, no, they haven't fully recovered yet. What do those priests tell the altarboys, to keep them quiet while being molested? Surely they instill the fear of God in those little boys, to have their way with them.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday August 17 2019, @12:49AM (1 child)
One of the parts of a job I did for quite a few years was a historian of sorts. I am well-versed in the various sources for historical documents (as well as buildings, artworks, etc.) created during the time you apparently claim "didn't exist," as well as corroborating evidence from everything from tree rings to carbon dating used to validate said chronologies.
You're either a troll, a conspiracy theorist, or an idiot. (Well, more than one is possible too.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @05:39AM
Can you tell men where any surviving originals that Poggio Bracciolini found are currently located: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini [wikipedia.org]
They supposedly survived for 1500 years in humid poorly maintained buildings until he found them and have since all been lost...
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Saturday August 17 2019, @07:19AM
Well, any female venison. But then:
This is so true. When, as a young incel, I saw the Movie "Bambi" I quickly realized that Bambi's mother was the source of the problem. Since then, I have insisted on "full does" for all my psycho-pharmalogical needs. And now they want to lock me up!
They are coming to take me away! Ha ha! [youtube.com]
Where jmorris is.