11 episodes
Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure The Binge
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3.6 • 53 Ratings
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Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure is a podcast about a family on the fringe who convinced tens of thousands of people across the globe to buy a miracle liquid made of poison, the international conspiracy they ignited, and the people who fought to take them down.
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1. Genesis
Meet Mark Grenon, Jim Humble, and the Genesis II church. Mark Grenon, a missionary in the Dominican Republic, contracts MRSA. He discovers the Miracle Mineral Solution, and claims that it has miraculously cured him of numerous ailments.
This takes him to the founder of MMS, Jim Humble, a man who claims to be a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda galaxy, and has treated thousands of people with what he calls "my malaria solution.” Together, they start the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing.
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2. The Bleach Hunters
Fiona O'Leary is a fearless firebrand, and mother of four autistic children. She is also an online vigilante who will stop at nothing to take down proponents of MMS. She's part of a loosely affiliated group of keyboard warriors known as "The Bleach Hunters.” Her Nemesis is Kerri Rivera, a former real estate agent who created something called "The Autism Protocols", which promote using MMS as a "cure" for autism. Meanwhile, a tragic death in the South Pacific of someone using MMS alerts the FDA that something might be terribly wrong.
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3. The Martyr
What starts for Daniel Smith as an attempt to regain trust in medicine quickly becomes "Project Green Life" – a top distributor of MMS. Then, the feds catch wind of his operation, hoping to take him down.
The Grenons use Daniel's prosecution as a rallying cry for the Genesis II church, claiming that their church status is what would insulate them from future attempts by the feds to shut them down.
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4. The Limelight
Self-appointed archbishops Jim Humble and Mark Grenon begin hosting seminars around the world, and charging $450 per person to attend. But it wasn’t just locals expressing interest in the so-called cure: now, national media was catching wind of the group, thrusting the Genesis II Church further into the limelight.
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5. Operation Quack Hack
As MMS continued its rise, so did the Federal Drug Administration’s attention on the so-called cure.
But MMS would prove difficult to clamp down on. Between eBay and Amazon, sales of the vials were reaching the millions. In 2019, a special agent with the FDA began buying MMS, gaining information on the church and its founders.
But the Genesis II Church would receive a major boost in March 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic rattled the world. Unapproved Covid cures were rampant, leading to the formation of the FDA’s Operation Quack Hack. The operation targeted 700 groups accused of fraud and Genesis II was one of them. It seemed as though the government was gaining on the Grenons. Until the man inside the Oval Office tacitly endorsed their miracle solution.
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6. The Raid
In the summer of 2020, the government raided Grenon's compound and arrested two of Mark Grenon’s sons. But where in the world were Mark and his other son?
This episode traces the Grenons’ moves around the world, and examines both how they rose to international stardom … and how they were ultimately brought down.
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Customer Reviews
Mixed feelings
I agree with the message the overall podcast is sending, and I think that’s this product is totally bogus and dangerous, but with that being said, this podcast is touting the FDA as some great ethical agency when in fact, they have approved many products and medication‘s that have harmed people much more than this product has. That’s not to say that this product is any good or that it helps anybody because it doesn’t, but I recently watched a Netflix documentary about the FDA and many of its products, and they approve products that are actually found to be quite dangerous later, and their approval process has been heavily criticize by many people. so if I have a product that is not dangerous and it seems to be helping with some type of ailment, basically, unless I’m a multimillionaire scientist, that can fund research and studies and get funded, I can never really be an entrepreneur of any kind of wellness product because the only way that you can do so is by FDA approval and that is also pretty problematic. So i don’t believe that these bleach products should be legal and I find it sickening that they would give these as enemas to autistic children, I also think that there needs to be a better way when someone has a product that actually does show benefits, then making the FDA the end all be all when they have proven to have failed in the past. There are many medication’s and products that people have allergic reactions to that the vast majority of people have no problem with. The biggest issue with these fake bleach cures is that they don’t have any benefit. It’s not necessarily that some people have bad reactions to them because that’s going to be the case with any type of substance or product that you put into your body
Oh the irony! Lost me 13 min in
This podcast starts off by saying how there was so much misinformation around covid. Then she claims Trump told people inject bleach. BLATANT MISINFORMATION. That’s not what he said. You are using a selected part of that entire press conference out of context. I guess you just couldn’t help but “inject” your political bias and your misinformation. Irony is clearly lost on her.
Wow these comments
People actually in these comments saying “don’t drink bleach” is a radical political position 🤣
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