

First, hydrogen peroxide has been around and known about since it was first discovered about 200 years ago. For now, let’s address the facts and fictions of the peroxide list. I will add the full version that has most commonly made its way around the internet later in the article. A hospital orderly and maybe even a janitor might make a claim that they are “in the medical field.” In fact, the printed version I received said “My husband has been in the medical field for over 36 years.” It doesn’t even claim that her husband was a doctor, as some versions of the story do (see above).

The email and internet list provide no source of evidence or verifiable testing. Becky Ransey, if she exists, may or may not be married to a medical doctor, but if both are true it still means nothing because the source of what was written cannot be verified. An internet search turned her name up hundreds of times, but nothing more verifiable that the sentence quoted above. The piece begins “This was written by Becky Ransey of Indiana (a doctor’s wife).” So far what we know for sure is that there is a real state called Indiana and doctors (at least of the medical variety) deal with health issues. When I received, in a print newsletter from a real estate company, a copy of a list of uses for hydrogen peroxide that has been floating around internet how-to sites for nearly a decade, I decided it was time to do some real research on the subject. Is it a miracle drug or a carcinogenic poison peddled freely and propagandized openly on the internet? Opinions differ greatly, though (thankfully) not violently, over the efficacy of hydrogen peroxide as a human disease cure or preventative. Hydrogen Peroxide: Truth, Lies and Rumours
