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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The doctor said it was the antibiotics," he said. "But we believe it was the mud."
'Magic dirt': How the internet fueled, and defeated, the pandemic's weirdest MLMhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/magic-dirt-internet-fueled-defeated-pandemics-weirdest-mlm-rcna6950
...Black Oxygen Organics, or BOO for short, is difficult to classify. It was marketed as fulvic acid, a compound derived from decayed plants, that was dug up from an Ontario peat bog. The website of the Canadian company that sold it billed it as the end product and smallest particle of the decomposition of ancient, organic matter.
Put more simply, the product is dirt four-and-a-half ounces of it, sealed in a sleek black plastic baggie and sold for $110 plus shipping. Visitors to the Black Oxygen Organics website, recently taken offline, were greeted with a pair of white hands cradling cups of dirt like an offering. A gift from the Ground, it reads. Drink it. Wear it. Bathe in it.
BOO, which can be taken by anyone at any age, as well as animals, according to the company, claims many benefits and uses, including improved brain function and heart health, and ridding the body of so-called toxins that include heavy metals, pesticides and parasites.
By the end of the summer, online ads for BOO had made their way to millions of people within the internet subcultures that embrace fringe supplements, including the mixed martial arts community, anti-vaccine and Covid-denier groups, and finally more general alternative health and fake cure spaces...
Put more simply, the product is dirt four-and-a-half ounces of it, sealed in a sleek black plastic baggie and sold for $110 plus shipping. Visitors to the Black Oxygen Organics website, recently taken offline, were greeted with a pair of white hands cradling cups of dirt like an offering. A gift from the Ground, it reads. Drink it. Wear it. Bathe in it.
BOO, which can be taken by anyone at any age, as well as animals, according to the company, claims many benefits and uses, including improved brain function and heart health, and ridding the body of so-called toxins that include heavy metals, pesticides and parasites.
By the end of the summer, online ads for BOO had made their way to millions of people within the internet subcultures that embrace fringe supplements, including the mixed martial arts community, anti-vaccine and Covid-denier groups, and finally more general alternative health and fake cure spaces...
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"The doctor said it was the antibiotics," he said. "But we believe it was the mud." (Original Post)
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Dec 2021
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tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)1. Now why didn't I think of that?
What a bunch of dumbasses!
crickets
(25,980 posts)2. Getting people to pay through the nose just to eat dirt... wow. nt
shanti
(21,675 posts)3. Rachel is covering this now
BOO. So many rubes, so little time.
tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)4. No Rachel, I gave up. Not trying to save these fools
Fucking idiots!!
The magic dirt came from a site near a landfill. Lab tests show it has arsenic and lead.
No they can keep right on eating dirt and let nature take its course.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)5. Follow the Money...
These quacks are all about fleecing the faithful.
Retrograde
(10,136 posts)6. My brother ate dirt
so did a lot of my cousins. They were toddlers at the time, and at the phase where everything went into their mouths. Didn't seem to do any lasting harm, and they quickly grew out of it.
Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out on the big bucks. Now what do I have a lot of that I can peddle to the brainwashed masses? Cat hair? Dust? All the leaves I raked up today?