Shameless: The High Priests of Snake Oil Offer Miracle Cures
news article · 2016
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SUMMARY
ABC News investigative report (Brian Ross Investigative Unit / KABC's Lisa Bartley), published 28 October 2016 (page datePublished metadata: 2016-10-28). Fetched directly. Reports a filmed encounter with Jim Humble near Guadalajara, Mexico, in which Humble repeated claims that MMS should be given to children with autism and women with breast cancer, and denied being 'more a con man than a religious leader.' States Humble said he was living in a small apartment and barely making ends meet because other church leaders in the U.S. had failed to send him his 'cut' of training-seminar revenue. States that in a newsletter to followers after the on-camera encounter, Humble wrote, verbatim, 'Today, I say MMS cures nothing!' and thereafter described MMS as one of a number of 'important health tools' rather than a cure.
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An ABC News investigative segment that filmed Jim Humble directly and obtained his own written retraction. It is the source for the case’s key quote (Humble’s own 2016 disclaimer that “MMS cures nothing,” made only after being confronted on camera and only after a decade of marketing it as a cure) and for his account of being paid a “cut” of Genesis II Church training-seminar revenue, which supports the financial-conflict stage without needing to characterize amounts the source does not state.