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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, @05:10PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:10PM (#881178)

    history needed to fit the "earth is 6000 years old" idea propounded by the catholic church of the time.

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:16PM (#881182)

    Anthony Grafton, an assiduous chronicler of this assiduous chronologer, offers one of the many conundra that perplexed Scaliger: what to make of a twelfth-century Arabic manuscript of the gospel of John, the colophon of which indicates that the scribe completed his work “on the 31st day of the month Tamuz, on Tuesday, the twelfth indiction, the year 6687 from Creation”?

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @05:55PM (#881201)

    Funnily enough. I was looking up some Scaliger stuff and came across this:

    I had a debate in hall at dinner time with a doctor who began to criticize the study of mathematics. Since he was sitting next to me, I enquired if it was not necessary [to know] the divisions of the year. He replied that it was not all that necessary, since his peasants knew perfectly well when it was day, when it was night, when it was winter, when it was summer, and when it was noon without any knowledge of that sort. I said in reply: 'That answer is clearly unworthy of a doctor'. What a fine doctor he is, that uneducated fool; one should shit a turd into his doctor's hat and put it back on his head. What madness! It is one of God's great gifts that everyone can have the weekday letters on his wall.

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/751213 [jstor.org]

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 17 2019, @02:31PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 17 2019, @02:31PM (#881531) Journal

    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.