Rhys Morgan

Mick West

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Great story about a young debunker, and the people who tried to stop him
http://m.guardian.co.uk/science/201...-miracle-cure-claims?cat=science&type=article

Morgan's first contact with online scepticism dates to his early teens when he became interested in Snopes.com, a website devoted to debunking urban legends. Then he wrote an essay for his English language GCSE expressing doubts about the validity of many alternative medicines. This interest in medicine did not emerge out of nowhere: his father is an intensive care doctor, his mother a nurse.

But it was when Morgan was diagnosed with a serious illness – Crohn's disease – that he plunged deep into the world of scepticism. While off school last year, he set about researching the disease and was alarmed at some of the "miracle cures" on offer. One particularly grabbed his attention: Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), which is described on its website as the "answer" to Aids, hepatitis A, B and C, malaria, herpes, TB and "most cancer"
 
MMS is also touted as being a cure for autism. I have a child with autism, and I wouldn't dream of putting this stuff in my child's body.
 
Rule of thumb: the more diseases a "cure" claims to be the answer to, the less likely it is to do anything.
 
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