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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 16 2019, @12:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the cleaning-out-the-gene-pool dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @03:19PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @03:19PM (#881123)

    A billion years of evolution. A trillion enzymes and proteins that are manufactured by our bodies with precision and at the perfect time and place. If only our DUMB bodies could figure out that eating bleach was the answer. Ditto for all the "supplements", or urine color enhancers as they're more accurately known.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @07:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @07:29PM (#881236)

    Once you have that organ, use it to consider how the fraction of the billion years you mentioned that was spent digging up food, chasing food, or running away from becoming food, compares to the fraction spent visiting Walmart.

    For one example of how things work, or fail to, in the real world, let me present to you an Indian vulture. Millions years of evolution made it well able to handle any kind of rotten diseased corpse. But somehow all that evolution failed to prepare the nice birds to an encounter with one nice chemical that got into wide use in industrial cattle farming. Cue a 99.99% dieoff.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis [wikipedia.org]

    Biochemistry is NOT instantly adaptable to all the weird shit chemical industry throws at you. Remember that. There are worse things than bleach out there, and when it can make some rich people richer, you get some of that in your food. They always happen to find some scientists to explain how it is totally good for you.

    (All the above does not make the activity of drinking bleach less stupid, however.)