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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 13 2020, @06:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the really-cleaning-up dept.

Australian Broadcast Corp

The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing has been claiming chlorine dioxide is a "miracle cure".

For years it has sold the industrial bleach as Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), stating it can cure things like autism, acne, cancer, diabetes and now COVID-19.

[...] Following an investigation [...] last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) today announced it had issued 12 infringement notices totalling $151,200 to MMS Australia for alleged unlawful advertising of Miracle Mineral Solution and other medicines.

... still a long way to injecting it, right? But maybe that's for The Genesis III Church of Health and Healing


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 13 2020, @07:46PM (4 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday May 13 2020, @07:46PM (#993906) Journal

    So the "bleach" these articles are referring to is chlorine dioxide...

    "Bleach" is a generic term for things that...well...bleach stuff.

    Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product which is used industrially and domestically to clean, and to remove stains. [wikipedia.org]
    bleach - noun - a strong chemical used for cleaning things or removing color from things [cambridge.org]

    referring to it as bleach in headlines is like referring to goat's milk as just "milk" in a similar situation.

    They're not calling it plain bleach, though. They're calling it "industrial bleach," which is accurate since it's mostly used in industry. (bleaching of wood pulp for example [wikipedia.org])

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by EvilSS on Wednesday May 13 2020, @10:09PM (3 children)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 13 2020, @10:09PM (#993955)
    Stop playing dense, you know damn well what 99% of people think you are talking about when you say "bleach" and you know damn well that was my point. You are making an argument just for the sake of being contrarian and overly pedantic. As for "industrial bleach" go ask 100 chemists or chemical engineers what the chemical name of "industrial bleach" is and you will probably get about 100 different answers. And exactly 0 of them would refer to chlorine dioxide as "bleach". A bleach, yes, but just "bleach" no, they would never use it in a manor where it could be confused with something else.
    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2020, @11:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2020, @11:54PM (#994009)

      Kinda like sodium chloride (common table salt) is a salt. "Salt" is a generic word that refers to many, many compounds that are the result of the chemical reaction between an acid and a base.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @07:54AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @07:54AM (#994152)

      The headline is "Church in Australia selling bleach as a Coronavirus treatment fined $151,200." What alternative would you suggest to that which doesn't contain "bleach" but stays within the recommended length of 60-80 characters and 6-8 occurrences of the major parts of speech?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @09:23AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @09:23AM (#994169)

        fuck the parts of speech - that's just one of those conservative conspiracies that teachers beat into your head so you grow up to be a good little conformist