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S201: The Snake Oil Salesman Part 1 - Curing cancer & depression

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

I stumbled upon a group of people who self-medicate with chlorine dioxide, a bleach like substance. They claim it cures everything from headaches, malaria, HIV, & cancer. In this episode, you'll hear from the man who discovered the "miracle cure" and from the people who take it. Thanks to Chris Cogswell w/ the Mad Scientist Podcast & Dr. Zuckerman with the TOXnow Podcast. toxnow.org/ themadscientistpodcast.com/ The Disgraceland Podcast disgracelandpod.libsyn.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Creative Battle.

0:07.0

This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.

0:10.0

Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better, like sneaking some

0:15.9

chili into the gravy for some extra oint, or building a playlist that will even

0:20.6

get your none up on the table, Or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max.

0:27.0

Christmas. Better with Pepsi Max. Jim Humbull says he's always been in the right place at the right time.

0:42.4

He says he started his career as a technician in the aerospace industry

0:46.3

and pretty soon he says he moved up and became a research engineer.

0:56.0

He did things like repair the lunar vehicle. There was some parts inside of it that was broken.

1:01.0

And I happened to be an electronic technician and they knew I was so they called me in and had me repair the lunar vehicle.

1:12.0

Jim Humble has done it all.

1:15.0

I did things like set up a bomb tests and atomic bomb tests.

1:20.0

In his spare time, Jim would seek new adventures.

1:26.0

He kept hearing stories about men going deep into the jungles of Venezuela

1:31.0

and coming out with gold, So he couldn't resist. Shim had to join them.

1:37.0

They didn't get all that gold out there. I can just go out and get a bunch of it myself, you know.

1:43.2

He was searching for gold, but what he ended up discovering

1:47.0

was the greatest treasure of all. One day, all sifting through the muddy waters, some of his men became ill.

2:00.1

They started shivering, throwing up, they had high fevers.

2:04.0

These are all classic signs of malaria.

2:07.0

So what should they do?

2:09.0

Should they leave the jungle and get malaria drugs?

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