Pseudo-science organization promotes giving children bleach to cure autism

[rainbow_goddess]

The Jenny McCarthy-supported organization Autism One, which supports a number of pseudoscience treatments and "cures" for autism, is promoting a product called "Miracle Mineral Solution," given either as a drink or as an enema, to cure autism in children. The problem (besides the obvious "cure" aspect)? Miracle Mineral Solution, when used as

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[epic_cakes]

What?!?!?!

[amarissia]

*facekeyboard* Is there truly no end to this woman's idiocy?

[rainbow_goddess]

What boggles my mind is the idea that people are actually listening to this woman. She has absolutely no medical qualifications. She's a Playboy Bunny and the ex-wife of a moderately famous actor-comedian. Yet people listen to her instead of to doctors.

[gremy]

[tooimpurenangel]

Keeps her in the news?

[rainbow_goddess]

She gets book contracts. She gets to appear on Oprah and other TV shows. She gets magazine articles published about her.

Most of all, she gets public adoration from people -- mainly parents of autistic children -- who absolutely worship the ground she walks on. If you can stand to do a Google search for "Jenny McCarthy" + autism you'll find the most sickening posts on various autism forums talking about how wonderful Jenny McCarthy is, what a "hero" she is to "autism parents", how amazing she is, what a wonderful job she is doing for the autism community, blah de blah de blah de blah.

[old_cutter_john]

I'm something of a misanthrope, so I suspect their intended customer base consists of parents who want to murder their autistic kids and then say they believed the advertising in good faith. Hard to say about the malaria. Maybe they have a dislike for the folks who live in the part of the world where it exists.

[rainbow_goddess]

I doubt it. I think the intended customer base is made up more of gullible, desperate people who are willing to try absolutely anything to "cure" their autistic children but are skeptical -- if not downright scared -- of anything that reeks of actual science and who think that Big Pharma or Big Government or Big Medicine or Big something-or-other are deliberately hiding the miracle cure for autism -- and for everything else -- and that anyone who tries to warn them of how dangerous this product is are part of some big conspiracy theory and are trying to prevent them from curing their children.

[old_cutter_john]

Yeah, there are a lot of folks who gravitate toward conspiracy theories - the sort who call in to late-night talk radio. I know a few who are like that even though they have no particular reason. I imagine that if one of them were to get sick, or had to take care of an autistic child, he'd deal with it in a manner that befits a member of the lunatic fringe.

[kirstenlouise]

They're the ones making their children drink bleach and we have no empathy? I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[unowncafe]

I agree with this statement.

The icon is for all of these people who are doing this.