The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was one of many children’s chemistry sets that included radioactive materials, in this case four kinds of uranium. The Gilbert lab was recommended for “only boys with a great deal of education”, and was priced at $50.00, an astronomical sum in those days. The high price was the reason for the disappearance of these kits rather than the danger of the materials. You could buy less expensive kits for your youngster in the sixties, such as the Atomic Energy Lab which only had one kind of uranium, but also contained radium.
What could possibly make your smile brighter than radioactive toothpaste? A German firm called the Auer Company (Auergesellschaft) diverted thorium supplies from the Nazi atomic program in 1944 when it became clear that Germany would not win the war. The forward-thinking company saw the future of nuclear materials in cosmetics and developed Doramad radioactive toothpaste. Besides the usual wonderful benefits of radiation, the marketing mentioned that radiation would hinder bacteria in the mouth.
Yikes!
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I was talking about the homeopathy one not the cancer site… Most of the people would agreee that you are coming off as close-minded and unreasonable. i have no time for people who cant think for themselves.
#30: Here is a what a simple google search returned proving the opposite of what you claimed. Cancer is increasing and is set to increase in the future.
Seems to me that you need to check your facts:
http://who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2003/pr27/en/
http://wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/canc-a26.shtml
Uranium is weakly radioactive. It is an alpha emitter, which can’t even penetrate your skin. Even if you eat it, only about 0.5% is insoluble. The rest passes on through and out. You basically have to inhale it for it to be dangerous, where it passes directly into the bloodstream and then, because of its affinity for phosphate, is incorporated into your bones.
Radium, on the other hand, is a million times more intensely radioactive than uranium and it is an everything emitter. The beta and gamma radiation is dangerous even outside your body. But it is also an alkali metal, chemically almost identical to calcium, so however it finds its way into your body it is treated as calcium and goes where calcium goes — into the crystal structure of your bones and teeth.
So I guess the extra money paid for safety?
# 14 McCullough said, “Many (not all) docs are on the take…whether they recognize it or not.”
McCullough that is just abut the stupidest thing you’ve ever said and you’ve said some doozies. As a physician, I suspect I know far more doctors than you’ve even met. How do you think I’m on the take? If I let a pharm company give me a boxful of a new, expensive antibiotic and I then pass that out to patients who may not be able to afford to buy it? Am I on the take? If I find it works well and begin to prescribe it, am I on the take? Ever gone to the grocery store and been offered a free cookie from a lovely young lady doling out samples? Did you buy those cookies? Are you on the take? Yes, there are a few (A FEW) doctors who sell their souls. Show me a profession with 100% ethical membership. Moran. Attack through innuendo and generalization.
# 26 James said, “the only way that homeopathy is dangerous is through misdiagnosis.”
James, that’s the smartest thing you’ve said in this thread. If only you had completed the thought: if someone misdiagnoses the patient as having a problem that CAN be treated with homeopathy. True homeopathy relies on magical reasoning to work. Even though the “medicines” have been diluted to a point where there is an extreme likelihood that none of the active ingredients is still present, homeopaths believe each water molecule is still imbued with the properties of the original ingredient because of some sort of molecular memory. In one of your posts you suggested that some of the effect might be placebo. I suggest to you, sir, that homeopathy relies 100% on the placebo effect and is more closely akin to witch doctoring than medical practice.
Yes, I am an allopathic physician but I have no problem working with purveyors of herbs. I’ve worked well with chiropractors and for a while in Mozambique, alongside a witchdoctor. I’m sorry – a traditional healer. But homeopathy takes magic and claims it to be science. And that cheats the patient, financially and worse through the giving of false hope.
Whenever I went to a shoe store as a child, as a sales gimmick, the clerk would have you step on an x-ray machine that was powerful enough to let you see your foot bones right through your shoes.
The un-shielded x-ray emitter was right at testicle height…nice!
Corporate America does not give a shit about your well being, and anyone that thinks otherwise is a damn fool. Look at the tobacco and alcohol industries as indisputable examples of the underlying truth about corpoations, where outright poison is sold to the masses, not only openly but glamorously, all along fighting tooth and nail against anything that can even remotely hold them back.
Or the pharmaceutical companies, that spend just about as much in advertising drugs so you are scared into thinking that you need them, as they do in development… often manipulating the clinical trial results so benefits are shown where none exist, and hiding the negative side effects.
Or McDonalds, KFC, etc selling non-food to the masses, knowing damn well that they are causing harm.
Or the Energy industries, with their ridiculous ‘clean coal’ campaign, which is nothing but a pack of undisguised lies. And don’t get me started on the lies promoted by the fossil fuel industries, which have 100’s of millions of dollars specifically budgeted in disinformation about ‘you-know-what’, because fixing the problem would drive them out of business and/or cost them many times more to adjust.
Corporate America has only one interest: the “Bottom Line”. As long as they can sell one more gizmo, one more prescription, one more gallon of gas, the corporation doesn’t give a shit about you… and if you think even remotely otherwise, you are a damn fool.
As you can see another responsible well thought rant full of total non-sense.
There is nothing wrong with fast food. It’s perfectly fine and nutritious food.
Lets talk about what the recent argument against fast food really is, it’s an attack on the lower class working family.
There is nothing in McDonalds food that is any more unhealthy than food in any fancy restaurant or home kitchen. It’s a hamburger it may be a tad high in sodium but that’s it, it’s a fast affordable source of protein and carbohydrates.
Guess what McDonaalds secret agenda is,… you ready for it…. To serve good tasting affordable food to people so they will come back and buy more.
I’m not sure what people think the secret hidden agenda is behind fast food.
My dad was a design engineer on the Enrico Fermi reactor plant at eh time of my conception and birth, so I’m getting a kick out of this. Dad used to tell us about the old-time dentists who would hold the dental x-ray plates in the patient’s mouth with their thumbs, and what happened to their thumbs after many years of exposure. Dad had a lot of x-rays after breaking his back as a young man. He wouldn’t let any dentist take a dental x-ray. He also moved us as far away from Detroit as possible when the reactor opened. Want a great read? There’s a fun book called “We Almost Lost Detroit” about the Fermi.
When visiting Albuquerque NM, check out the Atomic Museum. Not only do they have an actual payload from a Polaris missile and the US backpack nuke (what idiot would they strap that one to?), they have an entire wing full of this stuff. If you go when White Sands opens up the Trinity Site, there are extended tours available as well as meeting up with other atomic tourists.
Very creepy, indeed.
Lynn #38…I attended high school within sight of that nuke plant, as it was being built. It’s a nice area, too bad you moved away. 🙂
Rider,
Like I said, you are a damn fool, or just plain intentionally ignorant.
McDonalds products, just like any other restaurant of a similar type, are products designed to give ‘maximum satisfaction’ at minimum cost, while making you return for more. They are actually addictive. And their marketing is designed around building and supporting that addiction.
You may claim that they are only ‘a tad’ high in sodium, but the truth is that even their ‘healthy food’ is atrocious, with a Grilled Chicken Club having almost 1700 mG of sodium, which by itself is higher than the British maximum for an entire day (1600) and darn close to the maximum of 2400 in the USA recommended maximum. And that is the recommended for healthy people, not your typical McDonalds client.
And how about something as innocent as McNuggets? They contain no less than 7 petroleum byproducts, including butane (lighter fluid) added intentionally. Yummy. 60% processed corn. 20% sugar like products. And that is without the glop they call a sauce.
You can believe what you want to believe, but the facts are the facts… McDonalds, Taco Bell, Burger King, KFC couldn’t care less about the health of their clientele…. they will knowingly sell stuff that is poisoning their clientele and make the maximum profit possible in the process. They are very little different from tobacco companies… and few would argue that they don’t sell poison. And just like with cigarettes, only the really dumb or ignorant still smoke, or eat at McDonalds or similar ‘junk’ places.
#34. Yes, I know a lot of doctors. Many are friends of mine, some are clients. That opinion was culled from the docs themselves. Glad you’re one of the honest ones.
My favorite is the radioactive TestiCap. Makes Mr Johnson glow.
Still looking for something to turn me into the incredible hulk.
My folks got me a series of science kits when I was twelve or so. One of them had a sample of a radioactive element (don’t remember which) on the point of a pin in a tube with walls coated with a scintillating material. The idea was that you would set this thing up with a magnifying glass, then sit in a completely dark room for 15 or 20 minutes to accustom your eyes to darkness, then look through the glass to see the scintillations. Even then, the number of events was at most a few every ten seconds. Can’t have been more than a few micrograms of whatever it was.
Good times!