#2676: Geoffrey Clark

Hulda Clark remains a legend. Clark was among the most insane quacks who ever lived, whose big idea was that every ailment, including cancer and HIV, are actually caused by parasites, and whose business strategy was to sell you expensive nonsense herbs and randomly assembled electronic devices that would ostensibly cure you, including the legendary Zapper, a machine designed to give you a slight electric shock to kill off the mythical parasites. Clark didn’t escape the attention of the authorities after people started getting ill and dying from her products, and moved her business to Mexico instead, where she would continue operations until she, the author of The Cure for All Cancers, died of cancer, which she claimed to be able to cure, in 2009. Her business associates have since desperately tried to hide and lie about her cause of death.

After her death, the business was continued to be run by her son Geoffrey Clark, who continues to promote the Zapper, mostly through the Dr. Clark Store (a “Leader in Purity since 1993” currently owned by one Oskar Thorvaldsson – Clark remains a “consultant”) that offers a range of useless supplements, ridiculous cleanses and various silly devices, including water filters and a range of “Bernard Jensen products”. Hulda Clark’s ideas also continued to be promoted by her publicist Tim Bolen and by Precision Herbs, which continues to manufacture a range of ridiculous zapper produts, despite significant troubles from the FDA.

Diagnosis: No, we don’t have very much to say about Geoffrey Clark, but it was an opportunity to revist the insane silliness of Hulda. And although the popularity of this nonsense has waned, we thought it would be worth a mention in case it ever popped up again.