If it were so (intentionally or accidentally), users would be instructed to put MMS in any water they drink. But in fact they are instructed to take few droplets of MMS once a day; they can drink whatever water they wish after that. I doubt a disinfecting agent works several hours after being ingested.
seems like a huge coincidence for him to happen upon something used in water treatment
Almost any chemical is used for something; couldn’t you just write “seems like a huge coincidence for him to happen upon something used in dish washing” if MMS was instead a saponate? (Note that water treatment and dish washing are of approximately same relevance to human health.)
Also trying different chemicals and finally choosing sodium chlorite due it’s observed beneficial effects seems to me a less likely way to “discovery” in this case than knowing that bleach kills bacteria, concluding that it could work even internally and then using confirmation bias upon experimental data. Provided Jim Humble is not an ordinary quack.
I agree with your first point; I was surprised that EY used the “MMS is bleach, bleach is poison, MMS is poison” syllogism, given what he has written explicitly about poisons. It was perhaps a shorthand for a more valid argument, but surely sounded like very hasty reasoning.
I don’t get your points on water treatment. Maybe you don’t get mine. Selling a water treatment solution as a miracle health cure has the benefit of being safe and possibly having some marginal benefit. Such a sales plan doesn’t require that every bit of water be treated.
And it doesn’t seem like you read the directions. The directions are to put it into water, as I quoted earlier, and as can be seen in the included link.
Almost any chemical is used for something
But not every chemical has been so widely ingested to human benefit.
Also trying different chemicals and finally choosing sodium chlorite due it’s observed beneficial effects seems to me a less likely way to “discovery” in this case than knowing that bleach kills bacteria,
Replace “knowing that bleach kills bacteria” with “knowing that sodium chlorite can be easily transformed into chlorine dioxide, which is used as a water treatment”, and you’ve got my point about coincidence. It’s more likely that he picked this chemical because he knew it was used in water treatment than picked some chemical at random and liked the results.
Selling a water treatment solution as a miracle health cure has the benefit of being safe and possibly having some marginal benefit.
Safety would be guaranteed if the concentrations used for MMS didn’t exceed the level used for water treatment (under the natural assumption that water is not treated in order to become toxic), I don’t assert that the concentrations suggested by MMS proponents are unsafe, but rather that being a water treatment agent does not alone guarantee safety.
As for marginal benefits: water treatment is beneficial if all water one drinks is treated and if the water were infected before treatment. The MMS protocol, as likely applied in the western world, reduces to treating one glass of water a day, or even a glass of juice. Under normal conditions in developed countries drinking water or juice are perfectly safe as they are—adding disinfectant improves nothing. If, accidentally, the user has access to spoiled water only, treating one glass again is nearly worthless, since the germs would arrive to the intestinal tract with the next glass. If MMS were indeed beneficial, it would probably be for reasons completely unrelated to its being used for water treatment.
sodium chlorite can be easily transformed into chlorine dioxide, which is used as a water treatment
Reading more into Wikipedia I found the transformation goes as 2 NaClO2 + Cl2 → 2 ClO2 + 2 NaCl, which suggests you have to add chlorine to trigger the reaction. Are you sure this is happening when MMS is put into water? I suppose adding salt would be sufficient, but they suggest adding organic acids.
If it were so (intentionally or accidentally), users would be instructed to put MMS in any water they drink. But in fact they are instructed to take few droplets of MMS once a day; they can drink whatever water they wish after that. I doubt a disinfecting agent works several hours after being ingested.
Almost any chemical is used for something; couldn’t you just write “seems like a huge coincidence for him to happen upon something used in dish washing” if MMS was instead a saponate? (Note that water treatment and dish washing are of approximately same relevance to human health.)
Also trying different chemicals and finally choosing sodium chlorite due it’s observed beneficial effects seems to me a less likely way to “discovery” in this case than knowing that bleach kills bacteria, concluding that it could work even internally and then using confirmation bias upon experimental data. Provided Jim Humble is not an ordinary quack.
I agree with your first point; I was surprised that EY used the “MMS is bleach, bleach is poison, MMS is poison” syllogism, given what he has written explicitly about poisons. It was perhaps a shorthand for a more valid argument, but surely sounded like very hasty reasoning.
I don’t get your points on water treatment. Maybe you don’t get mine. Selling a water treatment solution as a miracle health cure has the benefit of being safe and possibly having some marginal benefit. Such a sales plan doesn’t require that every bit of water be treated.
And it doesn’t seem like you read the directions. The directions are to put it into water, as I quoted earlier, and as can be seen in the included link.
But not every chemical has been so widely ingested to human benefit.
Replace “knowing that bleach kills bacteria” with “knowing that sodium chlorite can be easily transformed into chlorine dioxide, which is used as a water treatment”, and you’ve got my point about coincidence. It’s more likely that he picked this chemical because he knew it was used in water treatment than picked some chemical at random and liked the results.
Safety would be guaranteed if the concentrations used for MMS didn’t exceed the level used for water treatment (under the natural assumption that water is not treated in order to become toxic), I don’t assert that the concentrations suggested by MMS proponents are unsafe, but rather that being a water treatment agent does not alone guarantee safety.
As for marginal benefits: water treatment is beneficial if all water one drinks is treated and if the water were infected before treatment. The MMS protocol, as likely applied in the western world, reduces to treating one glass of water a day, or even a glass of juice. Under normal conditions in developed countries drinking water or juice are perfectly safe as they are—adding disinfectant improves nothing. If, accidentally, the user has access to spoiled water only, treating one glass again is nearly worthless, since the germs would arrive to the intestinal tract with the next glass. If MMS were indeed beneficial, it would probably be for reasons completely unrelated to its being used for water treatment.
Reading more into Wikipedia I found the transformation goes as 2 NaClO2 + Cl2 → 2 ClO2 + 2 NaCl, which suggests you have to add chlorine to trigger the reaction. Are you sure this is happening when MMS is put into water? I suppose adding salt would be sufficient, but they suggest adding organic acids.