Rhys Morgan, while aged 15 and still at high school, was one of the people involved in exposing the toxicity of an unproven treatment known as Miracle Mineral Supplement

Miracle Mineral Supplement

Miracle Mineral Supplement, often referred to as Miracle Mineral Solution or MMS, is the colloquial product name for an aqueous solution of 28% sodium chlorite, a toxic chemical known to cause fatal renal failure, in distilled water...

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When he was 17 he was threatened with legal action by somebody who claimed to represent the Burzynski clinic

Stanislaw Burzynski

Stanislaw Rajmund Burzynski is a biochemist and a physician. He is founder, president and chairman of Burzynski Research Institute Inc. , based in Houston and Stafford, Texas...

 following comments made on his blog about the clinic's antineoplaston

Antineoplaston

Antineoplaston , a word derived from neoplasm, is a name coined by Stanislaw Burzynski for a group of peptides, derivatives, and mixtures that he uses as an alternative cancer treatment...

 treatments. These threats were widely reported on the internet - the so-called "Streisand effect

Streisand effect

The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely...

". Morgan subsequently published an article in a national newspaper about the experience.