{"id":1123,"date":"2012-05-27T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/05\/the_worst_use_for_mms_yet\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T01:36:33","slug":"the-worst-use-for-mms-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/05\/the-worst-use-for-mms-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"the worst use for mms yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sci.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2010\/08\/mms-continued-health-claims-for-an-industrial-bleach.shtml\">&nbsp;I&#8217;ve written before about the so-called &#8216;Miracle Mineral Supplement&#8217;<\/a>, or MMS: a substance that is no more, &amp; no less, than industrial bleach. Regardless of its actual nature, MMS continues to be touted as a panacea for just about every ill known to mankind. The other day <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2012\/05\/25\/selling-bleach-as-a-cure-for-autism\/\">Orac posted a piece on MMS<\/a>, &amp; so I settled down to read the anticipated lengthy article full of Respectful Insolence (TM). The story he told saddened, angered, &amp; horrified me (in roughly equal measures.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because it turns out that there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismone.org\/content\/38-children-recovered-20-months-autism-treatment-mms\">people who tout MMS<\/a> &#8211; remember, we are talking bleach here &#8211; as a &#8216;cure&#8217; for autism. And others who use it for that purpose. They deliver it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismo2.com\/mms.html\">in drinks, &amp; via enemas<\/a>. <i>Frequent <\/i>enemas: 500mL water + 10-15 drops of 28% sodium chlorite, administered into &amp; left in the colon for 20-30 minutes, <i>2-3 times a week<\/i> . I can (sort of) understand consenting adults using the stuff, although I would regard them as being ill-informed &#8211; but to force it on <i>children <\/i>simply beggars belief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Appalling&#8217; is probably too mild a term to use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;I&#8217;ve written before about the so-called &#8216;Miracle Mineral Supplement&#8217;, or MMS: a substance that is no more, &amp; no less, than industrial bleach. Regardless of its actual nature, MMS continues to be touted as a panacea for just about every ill known to mankind. 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