Amazon Removes Books Promoting Dangerous Bleach ‘Cures’ for Autism and Other Illnesses

Amazon confirmed Tuesday that it was no longer selling the books in terms of chlorine dioxide — a perilous mix of sodium chlorite and an acid activator such as citric acid, also marketed as Miracle Mineral Answer, or MMS. The Food and Drug Administration has warned consumers that the so-known as cure amounts to industrial bleach, has no skill health advantages and can reason permanent damage.

The shelved titles encompass “MMS Health Recovery Guidebook” and “Introducing MMS,” each written by Jim Humble, a ragged Scientologist and the self-appointed archbishop of a faith dedicated to chlorine dioxide. For years, he has claimed the bleach also can cure AIDS, most cancers, diabetes and nearly every varied disease. NBC Files was unable to attain Humble for statement.

Anti-vaccination recommend Andreas Kalcker’s “Forbidden Health,” which promotes chlorine dioxide as an autism cure, was also eradicated. Kalcker didn’t straight away acknowledge to a request for statement.

The switch comes per week after an NBC Files listing on dad and mom who use chlorine dioxide in a misinformed effort to reverse their young contributors’s autism, a developmental dysfunction with out a identified cure.

In March, after a excessive listing in Wired, Amazon banned two autism “cure” books, which integrated Kerri Rivera’s “Therapeutic the Indicators Known as Autism,” a data whereby she launched Humble’s bleach recipe to of us of autistic young contributors.

Amazon, Fb and YouTube own scrambled in recent months to acknowledge to calls from lawmakers and public health advocates to curtail the unfold of anti-vaccination and varied health misinformation on their internet sites. In April, Fb deleted several chlorine dioxide pages and teams with hundreds of contributors, citing a policy against snarl material that promotes unlawful capsules. That identical month, YouTube deleted scores of videos and channels with millions of views dedicated to chlorine dioxide, explaining that they violated standards against “snarl material intended to reduction unsafe actions that own an inherent likelihood of physical damage.”

A spokesman for Amazon declined to manufacture minute print on Tuesday’s takedown, or whether it will be half of a bigger effort to pleasing up health misinformation on its marketplace.