For years, televangelist/convicted fraudster Jim Bakker, the former husband of Tammy Faye Bakker, has made his living by spewing homophobic vitriol and other nonsense to thousands of people every Sunday morning.
Recently, to supplement his income, the 80-year-old began promoting “Silver Solution,” a fake medicine that he claims can cure the coronavirus.
The FDA and the New York Attorney General’s Office just sent Bakker a cease and desist letter demanding he stop selling the snake oil.
And Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed a lawsuit against him seeking a restraining order and permanent injunction barring him from selling the $80 product.
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The FDA has been quite clear that “no vaccines, pills, potions or other prescription or over-the-counter products treat or cure coronavirus disease.”
NPR reports:
For the past two decades, the FDA’s message has been clear: Silver doesn’t work to combat serious diseases. Over-the-counter drugs that contain colloidal silver ingredients “are not generally recognized as safe and effective,” it says. According to the National Institutes of Health, very little evidence backs up the health-related claims of silver. “Colloidal silver can be dangerous to your health,” the NIH says.
But this didn’t stop Bakker, who claims to be a “naturopathic doctor,” from plugging Silver Solution on his show anyway.
“This influenza that is now circling the globe,” he said during the February 12 broadcast of The Jim Bakker Show. “You’re saying that Silver Solution would be effective.”
This isn’t Bakker’s first run in with the law either. In 1989, he was found guilty of 24 counts of defrauding followers from his South Carolina-based ministry.
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Chrisk
Who gives a flying f*ck anyways. Let the loons buy up his silver slop buckets. Jesus Christ people are stupid.
GayEGO
Jim Bakker is just another religious bigot who spews forth his hate and Fake News, like Trump does!
Larry
Maybe Jim should take a large dose to prove how it works.
djmcgamester
I fine example of spirituality at its best.
rbernard
Once a scamvangelist, always a scamvangelist.
JIm Bakker is also a regular at the White House too and as you know, birds of a feather stick together.
radiooutmike
Silver, like some other metals, have bacteriostatic properties.
This means while it don’t kill bacteria like an antiseptic, it does inhibit growth. That’s in your first lab, if you’ve ever taken college microbiology, well that and a sterile anal swab.
Colloidal silver is used in some brands of bandages. A 2% solution of silver nitrate up until about 30 years ago was used to rinse a newborn infants eyes, so they would not get neonatal conjunctiva. So, silver can provide some surfaces with some modest “protection”. There’s been some research that it might be a benefit when working with antibiotics in vivo.
But you certainly gain no benefits, unless you want to look like a smurf if you drink his shit.
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He and his dime store drag queen looking wife scammed millions and millions of dollars out of their believers with their PTL network. He is a convicted felon
And yet these ignorant schmucks just keep pouring cash into his “survival” buckets of poo….
Chipper
I hope they make him pay dearly for his ways that he is still doing. Such a sad man, just like the thing in the white house.
Felecia
This closeted clown must REALLY miss his old bunkies from his prison years…to try SO HARD to get re-arrested by doing something totally reprehensible and completely disgusting; yep, still burning with heartache for his old cellie, obviously….indulge him !!! Goodbye, ghost-of-Tammie Faye, hello nutsack of ‘Little Puppet’ and a commissary-jar of Vaseline, lol….
Babakazoo
Seeing has he spent years in Jail for defrauding his Church and Followers out of millions of Dollars back in the 80’s/90’s, is anyone surprised that he is doing it again? Lock him up and throw away the key.
Cam
He needs to not just be arrested, but the IRS needs to stop allowing people like him to declar they are a church and avoid taxes.
Chipper
other churches have been hit with a spread of the covid 19 . And it will hit this church. God gave us brains to think and reason with. but the like of Bakker and other hot shot so called preachers, its a joke. As long as they get money to live a lavish life style. who cares who they take down on their way to prosperity . Shame on everyone of them, the seeds they show they will reap.