What's the harm? "Sale of controversial 'miracle' tonic results in dozens of charges"

[Orrex]

Sale of controversial 'miracle' tonic results in dozens of charges

A British Columbia man and an Alberta woman face dozens of Food and Drug Act charges related to the promotion of a so-called miracle tonic touted as capable of curing everything from AIDS to autism.

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Humble is quite literally an evangelist for sodium chlorite, a sacrament in the church he founded to spread his belief that a liquid generated from combining the bleach with water "has proven to restore partial or full health to hundreds of thousands of people" afflicted with everything from cancer to Alzheimer's.

Humble also claims to be a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda Galaxy sent to Earth to save humans.

For good or ill (mostly ill), bullshit alt-med is not confined to the United States.

[tonyt53]

1. That is the stuff that paper mills used to use for bleach!!! Mix chlorine and sulfur and heat well.

It is a "super bleach". Taken full strength it will certainly kill you. Even paper mills here in the US dropped that stuff about 20 years ago.

[underpants]

2. So drinking bleach is bad?

Damn. Who knew???

[Orrex]

3. Are you gonna contradict a billion year old god?

Well, are you?

[underpants]

4. No.....I guess not

[Orrex]

5. You'll just get more wrath.

[OneBlueDotBama]

6. The man who encourages the sick and dying to drink industrial bleach

Vulnerable people with cancer, Aids, influenza and malaria are being urged to drink Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) – described by the FDA as 'industrial bleach'


https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/sep/15/miracle-mineral-solutions-mms-bleach