Originally published at: Don't drink bleach, folks | Boing Boing
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It was originally created by Jim Humble, a former Scientologist.
Why Authorities Want to Ban A Controversial "Miracle Cure" | Houston Press
(Content warning. Scroll down to the old guy in a hat if you don’t need unpleasantness today.)
In 2006, he wrote the first edition of The Miracle Mineral Supplement of the 21st Century, a treatise he believed was so groundbreaking and anti-authoritarian that he claimed in the foreword that the book’s copyright would be terminated upon his death, disappearance or detention “for more than 60 days during any 6 month period.”
I don’t know if he’s kicked his earthly bucket and joined the galactic patrol invisibule yet. He was happy to sell to desperate people with Lyme disease or with autistic kids, so here’s hoping, because F that guy!
As the FDA noted, this treatment can cause nausea and dehydration—but parents have also reported effects like blue lips, ear aches, and weakness in their children.
It gets worse. “The really gory stuff,” Silberman continued, “is when parents post pictures of literally intestinal tissue that has been shed by these children because it’s been basically burned off inside of their intestines, and then they claim ‘oh, it’s the parasite. It’s working.’”
The Grenons set up a franchise, tuned to our social media age of crap, and F-them too!
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Where would people get the idea to drink bleach?
Oh right.
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According to a United States Justice Department news release about the case, the Grenons also "allegedly threatened the federal judge presiding over the civil case, and threatened that, should the government attempt to enforce the court orders halting their distribution of MMS, the Grenons would “pick up guns” and instigate “a Waco.”
Would it be fair at this point to simply let them drink their own product as punishment?
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I came here for this. Thank you.
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