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Government Smacks Down Right Wing Evangelicals Selling Bogus Coronavirus Cures

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  1. PeppermintTwist

    PeppermintTwist Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    PeppermintTwist Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I personally have not taken antibiotic in years and I believe that although sometimes necessary, they are over prescribed, but that does not make the case for the snake oil that Bakker is peddling.
     
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    I don't know what he's selling, but it is dead wrong to say colloidal silver is snake oil.
     
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    PeppermintTwist Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    For warding off or curing the coronavirus?
     
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    It is an anti viral and immune booster, so would only help.
     
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    That is not what this grifter is claiming. I will not set up a website tomorrow to sell Echinacea tea or any other immune system enhancer and tell people it prevents or cures the virus. That would make me a charlatan and possibly even responsible for the death of a person or two.
     
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    he drank excessive amount of ground silver if I recall, he did it on purpose

    colloidal silver takes two silver rods and with electricity takes a microscopic layer off and mixes with a large amount of distilled water - the dose makes the poison they say

    if I had a untreatable infection, I would definitely try colloidal silver, but would not take ground silver every day for years in large doses like that man

    they now use it in clothing, band-aids, ect.... used properly not an issue - heck silverware got it name because of silver..... we just use cheaper materials now, at least most of us

    if antibiotics ever stopped working again, then we would all prob turn to any alternative possible.... or die, till then, see a doctor and only use as last resort in my book
     
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    His problem is it was home made of who knows what strength.
     
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    but it does make it wrong if he is listing what he thinks it may cure, that is true of all natural supplements

    once you make the claim it can cure something, then it's treated like a drug

    same with ecigs, they can no longer say they help you quit smoking - even though they do just that for many people imo
     
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    home made with rods is one thing as it's such a small amount of silver, microscopic, he was making iconic silver with a much much higer concentration

    be like soaking a lemon peel in your drink vs grinding it up and putting in your drink, which way do you digest more peel - one is massively more
     
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    With his history of con jobs, he knows what he was doing, at very best, was disingenuous.
     
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    I agree, he will just be told to stop selling, given a small fine and move on

    and I forgot about the Trump vitamin scam where you had to send him your pee, lol

    https://nymag.com/news/business/70831/

    "Prime Essentials and the more expensive Custom Essentials, the ingredients of which are determined by the Trump Network–branded PrivaTest, a urine test that claims to determine which vitamins the user needs."
     
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    Well it probably is a placebo but if combined with true faith in God, miracle healing is possible
     
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    is that why they are closing churches, lack of faith in God?

    silver does have antibiotic effects, not sure about anti-viral

    but placebo is also pretty amazing
     
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    Did they actually claim these products 'cure' coronavirus? If so, good on TRUMP'S ADMIN for shutting down the false advertising.

    If, however, they claimed their products can help folks resist/survive coronavirus, thats a totally different ballgame. Theres a cornucopia of natural (read: unpatentable and thus unmonopolizable) herbs and minerals that boost the human immune system, and thusly stymy big pharma's quest for a medically dependent population.
     
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    Yeah, after they supported him and he tried to benefit from them.

    Hell, Baker and Trump are the same person. They just sell a different flavor snake oil
     
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    Bakker is a washed up snake oil salesman, hardly any kind of a leader.
     
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    But not silver solution. It is good for developing X-rays in the old time darkrooms.
     
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    These same stupid people will be at church tomorrow praying to gawd to end coronavirus.
     
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    Wa
    snt an initiative of the Trump White House though
     
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    Hmmmmm yerrrrsss!

    And your systematic reviews on the research backing this is where?
     
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    Can you do that in English or don't they speak that in Australia?
     
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    iPad sometimes jumps the cursor.

    Sorry you were unable to connect wa and snt to become wasn’t
     
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    Backing what?
     
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