Stewart McPherson , leading some 200 young naturalists on a voyage to retrace Charles Darwin’s 1831 journey that led to the theory of evolution, said the trip is about hope and the future as the Dutch schooner Oosterschelde set sail from Plymouth, England.
Chris Rogers/Getty Images(SALT LAKE CITY) After a three-year manhunt, a Utah man has been arrested on charges of allegedly selling a fake COVID-19 cure, the U.S. Attorney s Office for the District of Utah announced Monday.
Gordon Hunter Pedersen, 63, of Cedar Hills 30 miles south of Salt Lake City allegedly appeared in multiple YouTube videos before COVID-19 vaccines were approved, selling "structural alkaline silver."
He allegedly claimed the product was a cure for the virus because it "resonates, or vibrates, at a frequency that destroys the membrane of the virus, making the virus incapable of attaching to any healthy cell, or to infect you in any way," the release states.
Court documents said Pedersen sold the products on MyDoctorSuggests.com as well as Amazon and Shopify. Prices ranged up to $299.95 for a gallon of the silver products.
Prosecutors allege he also claimed to have a Ph.D. in immunology and in naturopathic medicine and he was a board-cert