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Televangelist Jim Bakker to pay $156K for false COVID-19 cure claims

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reported. The settlement follows a lawsuit accusing the pastor of claiming a product called Silver Solution, a colloidal silver supplement, could cure the novel coronavirus on 11 episodes of his streaming TV series, “The Jim Bakker Show,” during February and March of 2020.

The solution, which Bakker is not the first to tout as possessing immune system-boosting powers, can cause human flesh to turn blue over time and have other serious side effects, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, a federal agency. “This influenza that is now circling the globe — you’re saying that Silver Solution would be effective?” Bakker asked Sherrill Sellman, whom he referred to as a “natural health expert” and “naturopathic.

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