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Trump golf club to host speaker who markets bleach as health treatment(www.theguardian.com)

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Donald Trump’s private golf resort in South Florida will next week host one of the world’s leading purveyors of chlorine dioxide, a potentially life-threatening form of industrial bleach that is claimed without evidence to be a cure for cancer, Covid and autism.

Andreas Kalcker is among 50 listed speakers at the “Truth Seekers Conference”, a two-day event opening on Thursday at the US president’s resort, Trump National Doral Miami. The event features several anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists who have been brought together by the far-right commentator Charlie Ward.

Kalcker, a German national thought to be living in Switzerland, markets the bleach under the brand name “CDS”, for chlorine dioxide solution. His online brochures claim that the toxic chemical, which he admits is a disinfectant, can “eliminate pathogens” that cause disease.

He boasts it is “possibly the greatest medical discovery of the last 100 years”.

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bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social
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Is this where he got the idea to inject bleach to stop covid?

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Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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I’m so conflicted on this

On the one hand, I fucking hate snake oil scam peddlers with a passion but on the other, this would kill off a lot of idiots who just deserve what’s coming for them. Sorry, but if you believe this shit you deserve all the consequences.

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AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee
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Most of the time the victims of this are children whose parents are delusional.

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ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Fuck, he’s still working on injecting bleach to cure covid, isn’t he?

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Almacca@aussie.zone
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Has Trump even bothered with the pretence of ‘divesting’ himself of his properties this time around, or is that Just Another Thing We’re All OK With Now?

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