Once you have a large, dug-in community of people who neither believe nor trust the scientific mainstream on major public health issues - imagining that you can somehow turn the clock back to the Good Old Days is simply delusional.
I was unaware there was a "bleach community." However, dilute sodium hypochlorite solutions have been used as anti-microbial rinses in dentistry for a while: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9292655/
> Once they’re in, they take screenshots of posts from parents who describe giving these chemicals [bleach] to their children, often with disastrous results.
> "My son is constantly making a gasping sound,” posted one Kansas mother who claimed to treat her adult son with chlorine dioxide, according to screenshots shared by Eaton and Seigler. “He won’t open his mouth,” a Canadian mom wrote of her 2-year-old’s unwillingness to drink the chlorine dioxide. “He screams. Spits. Flips over.”
Unfortunately it sounds like this isn't limited to people self-administering bleach - instead it is nothing short of child abuse (and abuse of vulnerable adults where it's not...) in many cases.
It's already clear that RFK Jr. will make a lot of unscientific and harmful changes. The new vaccine panel full of anti-vaccine activists, the whole autism study and messaging around that and the recent statement that they'll make drug approvals much faster by skipping animals and using AI instead. MMS is just another well-known pseudo-scientific cure for everything, and plenty of scammers earn money with that bullshit.
These are all absolutely extreme ideas and will cause harm.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 28.5 ms ] thread"Meta said it was reviewing the groups WIRED flagged and would remove any it determines violate".
Is it the job of the reporter to flag groups covered in the story? Seems like a little bit of inserting itself into the news. Report and move on.
My biggest criticism of Darwinism is that it takes generations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/moms-go-undercover-fig...
> Once they’re in, they take screenshots of posts from parents who describe giving these chemicals [bleach] to their children, often with disastrous results.
> "My son is constantly making a gasping sound,” posted one Kansas mother who claimed to treat her adult son with chlorine dioxide, according to screenshots shared by Eaton and Seigler. “He won’t open his mouth,” a Canadian mom wrote of her 2-year-old’s unwillingness to drink the chlorine dioxide. “He screams. Spits. Flips over.”
Unfortunately it sounds like this isn't limited to people self-administering bleach - instead it is nothing short of child abuse (and abuse of vulnerable adults where it's not...) in many cases.
These are all absolutely extreme ideas and will cause harm.