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Fred Onyango

‘We are thrilled RFK Jr. is in charge’: The so-called ‘bleach community’ expects greenlight to use the cleaning product as a cure for HIV, malaria, and autism

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s influence on the healthcare system is reportedly giving a fringe group called the “bleach community” the confidence to rebrand industrial cleaner as a Swiss Army knife for human illness.

There’s a strange intersection happening between online echo chambers, politics, and RFK Jr.’s MAHA. According to Wired, the substances these groups are currently promoting as medicine include chlorine dioxide solution and water purification solution — the latter better known in fringe wellness circles as “God’s detox.” To be clear: at the core of both is still the same toxic bleach you’d use to scrub your toilet. But hey, this is what happens when the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services tells the public to “do your own research.”

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