Alex Jones peddled a fake coronavirus cure that can turn people's skin permanently blue

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

New York State attorney general Letitia James has ordered right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to stop making misleading claims about supposed coronavirus cures sold on his website, InfoWars.

The attorney general’s office “is extremely concerned” about Jones hawking these products on his online show, it said in a cease-and-desist letter dated March 12. The products include a “nano-silver” toothpaste, which Jones said “kills the whole SARS-corona family at point-blank range.” There is no medical evidence behind these claims. In fact, the Federal Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health say colloidal silver is not safe to use and can even cause argyria, a bluish-gray skin discoloration that’s typically permanent.

“As the coronavirus continues to pose serious risks to public health, Alex Jones has spewed outright lies and has profited off of New Yorkers’ anxieties,” said Attorney General James in a statement. Such misrepresentations are illegal, according to New York law.

Jones opened his March 7 show by saying that the coronavirus is “synthetic and man-made” and “clearly a globalist ChiCom [Chinese Communist] plot.” In the past, he has also claimed that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 26 dead was a staged hoax.

https://qz.com/1818606/alex-jones-ordered-to-stop-selling-fake-coronavirus-cures/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo

Yeah but it doesn't turn the frogs gay.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Doomsday preppers and CT propellerheads have been hawking this crap for years

Too bad the FDA didn’t put restrictions on it 20 years ago.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Too bad the FDA hasn't jumped on ALL the woo.

No pun intended, it makes me sick.

[pat_k]

3. Cool. We'll be able to ID and avoid his followers. (nt)

[uriel1972]

4. Isn't whatshisface Bakker peddling something similar?

[BigmanPigman]

5. Here you go..."Silver Solutions".

"Rumors of alternative remedies or preventions for the virus abound online. Debunked tips shared by those outside the medial profession have included consuming large amounts of garlic and swallowing tablets that contain chlorine dioxide. Televangelist Jim Bakker is being sued by the state of Missouri for hawking a product called Silver Solution as a coronavirus cure (a “natural health expert” on his show also claimed the solution worked for SARS and HIV)."

"While gulping down strange chemicals might be harmful, most of the bad coronavirus advice out there is more like the fake Stanford letter: inaccurate, but plausibly created by essentially well-meaning people who just aren’t qualified to dole out medical advice, not a coordinated attempt to exploit the outbreak panic for some type of gain."

[backscatter712]

6. Yep. Jim Bakker.

Yes, the same Jim Bakker who had the scandals in the 80's with the PTL Club and Tammy Faye Bakker. Now he's a Colonel Sanders lookalike, he's got a new wife who's dumber than a box of rocks, and a spectacular racket going.

And now he's pitching his Smurf serum alongside his buckets of survival "food". Well, at least until the law comes down on him, and let's hope it does like a ton of bricks.

It's pretty clear he didn't learn a damned thing in prison.

Granted, I wouldn't complain much about Bakker's and Jones' followers self-identifying by turning themselves blue. I'll know who to avoid.

[dalton99a]

7. He should try it on himself

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-turned-blue-silver-dies-article-1.1466905

[MissB]

8. My mother uses colloidal silver

She was just telling me today how she heard that it solid work against this virus. She said that she heard the White House physician even said it worked. She said it worked great as an antibiotic.

I told her that any doctor that told her that antibiotics worked against viruses was a quack.

She uses it for her animals instead of vaccinations.

[backscatter712]

9. Oh man, I hope you can find a way to talk some sense into her before she turns blue.

[MissB]

10. Sadly no

She’s in her early 80s and unlikely to change.

I couldn’t convince her not to go to a potluck tonight.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Show her some pix of people with "argyria" ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=+argyria&

[Initech]

12. He seriously sounds like Tor from Seinfeld.