Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sun tan lotion
Why suntan lotion?
Many (not all) types of suntan lotion are toxic enough to corals that it has an impact on the environment at popular beaches in coral reef areas.
Yellowcake Shaped the West
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#12I find reads like this interesting, but I'm discouraged when things like "The Nutex Company made radium condoms." are mentioned but are also not quite right[1].
I have doubts now about how well everything was researched which is a shame because it's an otherwise interesting article.
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#14> It purportedly could cure cancer and impotence and give those who used it an “all-around healthy glow,” as one advertisement put it. During the early 1900s, it was added to medicines, cosmetics and sometimes even food. The Denver-based Radio-Active Chemical Company added radium to fertilizers. The Nutex Company made radium condoms. Every generation seems to think they can't possibly make such ignorant mistakes as w…
AI based content suggestion trained through reinforcement to maximize ad revenues at the expense of human attention. Humanity will one day look back and say how the hell did we let Silicon Valley ruin the minds of an entire generation.
This, and I wonder how we (as societies/countries) aren't aware of that. I know some high level people in ad tech and they couldn't care less, but I believe lots of average Joes would care much more about their online habits if they knew the long term impacts (which we don't fully understand, but there's already some bad sides).
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#15> It purportedly could cure cancer and impotence and give those who used it an “all-around healthy glow,” as one advertisement put it. During the early 1900s, it was added to medicines, cosmetics and sometimes even food. The Denver-based Radio-Active Chemical Company added radium to fertilizers. The Nutex Company made radium condoms. Every generation seems to think they can't possibly make such ignorant mistakes as w…
Prescribing fluoroquinolones like they're candy.
They're extraordinarily dangerous antibiotics. It was becoming known in the early 1990s the soft tissue, heart, retina, brain and nerve damage they can cause. Most European nations restricted their prescription considerably. The US did the opposite and commonly prescribed them. As of a decade ago the US was prescribing fluoroquinolones to roughly 10% of its adult population annually.
The evil scumbags at Bayer tried to get enrofloxacin (Baytril; comparable to Cipro) approved to be put in water to be fed to poultry for mass consumption by the population.
Cipro carries two blackbox warning labels. The FDA dragged their feet on dealing with it for more than a decade despite knowing how dangerous it is. And Cipro is the gentle one in the family.
What we'll eventually prove is that Cipro harms everyone that takes it and should be used only as a last resort, not first resort.
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#16I find reads like this interesting, but I'm discouraged when things like "The Nutex Company made radium condoms." are mentioned but are also not quite right[1]. I have doubts now about how well everything was researched which is a shame because it's an otherwise interesting article. [1] http://museumofradium.co.uk/nutex-radium-condoms/
> I have doubts now about how well everything was researched
I did similar research on a number of points in the article as something felt off. After quickly debunking the condom and several other early claims, I decided to not to waste my time further continuing to read it.
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Sun tan lotion
Why suntan lotion?
Fun fact, the CARES act, which was mainly a corona virus relief bill, included changes on how sunscreen is approved by the FDA, loosening the requirements if I understand correctly. Search “sunscreen” in this PDF: https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr748/BILLS-116hr748enr.p...
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#18> It purportedly could cure cancer and impotence and give those who used it an “all-around healthy glow,” as one advertisement put it. During the early 1900s, it was added to medicines, cosmetics and sometimes even food. The Denver-based Radio-Active Chemical Company added radium to fertilizers. The Nutex Company made radium condoms. Every generation seems to think they can't possibly make such ignorant mistakes as w…
AI based content suggestion trained through reinforcement to maximize ad revenues at the expense of human attention. Humanity will one day look back and say how the hell did we let Silicon Valley ruin the minds of an entire generation.
> an entire generation
I think we're on ~3 generations and counting now and letting us reach that conclusion is against their interests.
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#19> It purportedly could cure cancer and impotence and give those who used it an “all-around healthy glow,” as one advertisement put it. During the early 1900s, it was added to medicines, cosmetics and sometimes even food. The Denver-based Radio-Active Chemical Company added radium to fertilizers. The Nutex Company made radium condoms. Every generation seems to think they can't possibly make such ignorant mistakes as w…
Open an old Scientific American, wonder at just how wrong some of the facts reported turned out to be.
Is there any real reason to believe the same is not true of the latest edition?
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#20> It purportedly could cure cancer and impotence and give those who used it an “all-around healthy glow,” as one advertisement put it. During the early 1900s, it was added to medicines, cosmetics and sometimes even food. The Denver-based Radio-Active Chemical Company added radium to fertilizers. The Nutex Company made radium condoms. Every generation seems to think they can't possibly make such ignorant mistakes as w…
Open an old Scientific American, wonder at just how wrong some of the facts reported turned out to be. Is there any real reason to believe the same is not true of the latest edition?
Yep, that is exactly my point