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The Unsubstantiated Health Claims of MLMs
In 2000, Young opened the Young Life Research Clinic in Springville, Utah. The clinic employed a pediatrician named Sherman Johnson who had recently had his medical license reinstated. A decade earlier, Johnson had been investigated by the state medical board after a woman had died while he was treating her for cancer. In 2005, the Young Life Clinic settled a lawsuit with a patient who claimed that infusions of vitamin C had caused renal failure, almost killing her. There's also Young Jevidy International, which claims its products can treat, cure, mitigate, and or prevent cancer, diabetes, autism, ADHD, anxiety, MS, and the list goes on.
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