The Church Proposes A "Miracle Cure" Despite FDA Warning Against Consumption Of Bleach | American News

A group dubbed Genesis II, Church of Health and Healing, plans to meet Saturday in a Washington State resort to promote a "miracle cure" that claims to cure 95% of all illnesses in the world. world by making adults and children, including infants. , drink industrial bleach.

The group invites members of the public via Facebook to attend what they call their "effective alternative healing" at Icicle Village Resort in Leavenworth on Saturday morning. The event organizer, Tom Merry, announced the event on his personal Facebook page by explaining to people that learning how to consume bleach "could save you life or that of a loved one sent home to die ".

"The church" asks participants at the meeting to "donate" $ 450 each, or $ 800 per couple, in exchange for joining the organization as well as packages of bleach, which they call "sacraments". The chemical is called MMS, or "Miracle Mineral Solution or Supplement," and participants commit to acquiring "the knowledge to help heal many people from the terrible diseases of this world."

In fact, the MMS is composed of chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent used both on textiles and in industrial water treatment. It has been banned in several countries of the world for its use as medical treatment.

In the United States, the chemical can not be sold for human consumption. In 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a public warning after being informed that many consumers had been injured by drinking fluid containing symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, severe dehydration, and dead person treatment reaction.

The FDA has issued the following advice: "Consumers who use the MMS should stop using it immediately and throw it in the trash."

An FDA spokesman told the Guardian that the agency could not comment on possible civil or criminal law enforcement measures, but added: "The FDA continues to advise the consumers on the dangers of Miracle Mineral Solution and the agency has issued consumer warnings last decade. "

The highlight of Saturday's event in Leavenworth is Mark Grenon, a self-proclaimed "bishop" of Genesis II Church. He is the author of a book entitled Imagine a world without disability: is it possible?

In a video posted on the "church" website, Grenon says that the "sacramental protocols" sold by the group can eliminate 95% of the world's diseases, including malaria, Ebola, dengue, all types of cancer, diabetes, autism and HIV. and multiple sclerosis. He sells 4 ounce bottles of sodium chlorite as "sacramental cleansing water" for $ 15, giving instructions on how to mix it with citric acid to get chlorine dioxide.

The Guardian contacted Grenon to ask him why he was selling industrial bleach described by the FDA as potentially dangerous as a miracle cure, but he did not immediately respond.

As a promotion of the event, Merry posted on Facebook a link to a video that claims to show people with malaria cured in two hours. The video shows a British MMS defender heading to a Ugandan village where he gets several villagers to receive the "miracle cure".

One of the victims shown in the film is a baby lying in the arms of his mother who has to drink a cup of bleach. The child screams when the liquid is swallowed.

The Guardian attempted to contact Merry and the Icicle Village Resort, but none of them responded.

Fiona O 'Leary, an activist against the pseudo science whose work helped to ban the MMS in Ireland in 2016, said she was horrified to see the Genesis II Church, which she has referred to as "bleach cult", hold a public event in Washington.

"This event endangers the lives of people, especially children. We must protect vulnerable people from this dangerous quackery, "she said.

This is not the first time that Washington State is attacking a group touting the MMS. In 2015, Louis Smith of Spokane was convicted in the Eastern District of Washington for selling mislabelled drugs and defrauding the United States. He had sold MMS via a website called Project GreenLife, after fraudulently obtaining sodium chlorite by creating a fake "water purification" business.

He was sentenced to four years in prison.