Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Believing they’ve found the cure to aches and pains and serious diseases, Jim Humble and Mark Grenon create a church espousing the use of the Miracle Mineral Solution. But what people are consuming isn’t medicine - it’s diluted bleach. MMS is sold around the world, promoted by the church as a panacea for malaria, autism, cancer and all common ailments. Activists urge the FDA to take action to prevent further injuries and deaths associated with MMS. Just as the media begins to expose the scam, the bleach regimen gets an unexpected endorsement as a treatment for COVID-19. From Neon Hum Media, Bloomberg & Sony Music Entertainment, “Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure” follows the rise and fall of a family who pushed a dangerous product on people looking for alternative medicine. Host Kristen V. Brown also spotlights the armchair detectives who tracked the Grenons and their allies. Did they believe MMS was a religious sacrament or was it just a cover to sell poison?

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0:00.0	To get the Crime Riders on Aftershow right now, go to patreon.com slash partners in crime
0:06.0	media.
0:07.0	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Riders On.
0:23.5	Crime Riders On is the original True Crime Review podcast that exists in a true crime,
0:27.9	or culture, other podcasts, and on this episode, they promised a concoction that would cure
0:33.4	cancer, prevent COVID, and treat autism.
0:37.1	But what people were actually drinking was bleach.
0:40.0	We'll talk about the latest season of Smoke Screen, Deadly Cure.
0:44.9	Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist, and host of
0:50.3	these are their stories podcast, my husband, and love of my life, Kevin Flynn.
0:54.1	Hello, Kevin.
0:55.1	Hello, Rebecca.
0:56.8	Also with us is our resident doubting Thomas, the author of the City Trilogy of Novel's
1:01.4	Hosts of the Stranger Rivals podcast about to drop its new season and our Patreon deep dive
1:07.1	book love podcast host Toby Ball.
1:09.3	Hey Toby.
1:10.3	Hey, Rebecca.
1:11.6	And again, filling in for the vacationing Laura Bricker is our very, very special guest
1:18.0	host, our handsome line editor, Livy Burdett.
1:21.7	Welcome back, Livy.
1:23.2	Hello, Rebecca.
1:24.8	All right, so Kevin, this is obviously Monday's podcast.
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