If we go back in history, there was a point in time, after radioactivity was discovered but before nuclear weapons were developed, where there was a trend of putting radium and other radioactive substances in health and beauty products, because I guess people thought that because it possesed some form of energy that it must be good for you. In hindsight that seems far more stupid than some embarrassing dance or something.
If we go back in history, there was a point in time, after radioactivity was discovered but before nuclear weapons were developed, where there was a trend of putting radium and other radioactive substances in health and beauty products, because I guess people thought that because it possesed some form of energy that it must be good for you. In hindsight that seems far more stupid than some embarrassing dance or something.
Google “radium girls” if you want some gruesome hindsight.
Thanks, I will log off the internet for today.
“Glow up”
Same thing happened with asbestos.
The latest “wonder material” tends to get put in anything if the marketing department think will improve sales
They put it in cigarette filters FFS!
My mom, born in the 50s, remembers getting her shoe size measured by an unshielded xray. That’s just so wild to me.
Fiestaware!