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Necklaces worn to 'protect' against 5G are radioactive experts warn
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- diordiderot 5y agoLong fuse Darwin awards.
- bradwood 5y agoNatural Selection in action
- posnet 5y agoReminds of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TwBUxxIC0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TwBUxxIC0 where the maker went to debunk the negative ion energy bands, only to discover some of them had highly dangerous powdered thorium coating them.
- im3w1l 5y agoWho would manufacture such a thing and why? Who even has access to thorium?
- oneoff786 5y agoThorium is abundant and has mundane uses.
- ineedasername 5y ago>Thorium is abundant That seems incorrect, or least depends on where you draw the line on "abundant" Thorium, at atomic number 90, is one of the rarest elements. [0] It falls middle of the pack in terms of presence in the Earth's crust, but after the first dozen or so, most elements are-- relative to that first dozen-- extremely rare. Thorium is about 6ppm. >and has mundane uses. Lots of things have mundane uses while being extremely dangerous if misused. Chlorine is about 20x more abundant, has plenty of mundane uses, and is also poisonous. Thorium is a cancer-causing element, and over the past decades thorium has been systematically removed from any product or industrial process that does not require it. I think it's safe to say that it's a bad idea, and presents a least some risk, to include it in consumer product worn on your body. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium
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- foxfluff 5y agoI'm wondering the same. Is it accidental contamination or are they doing it deliberately? Out of malice or out of ignorance? Or is it someone else upstream putting radioactive materials in the products that end up being used as a coating? Again, why, ignorance or malice or something else? It's very confusing.
- rainbowzootsuit 5y agoThe exact product that the government is warning about here is covered in the video that you linked, which was published Feb 18, 2020.
- kibwen 5y agoIn the next video in this series he mentions how he was encouraged to reach out to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission about these products which resulted in their sale being banned.
- inkyoto 5y agoDo you remember who we were taught in school that evolution is the survival of the fittest? It turns out, they have lied to us all along. Evolution is the survival of the smartest.
- eulgro 5y agoFitness encompasses smartness, nobody has lied to you.
- vmception 5y agofor anyone passing by: evolutionary fitness is about a population's ability to survive in perpetuity, not an individual. its a different context of the word "fittest". fitness here means odds of sexual reproduction, and so since a necklace with ionizing radiation will not prevent a wearer with low cognitive abilities and gullibility from creating viable offspring with the same genes before the cancer breaks through, it therefore has nothing to do with evolutionary fitness. it is more likely that we select for these traits because we can't stand being around mates that are grounded in reality (or that those mates won't reproduce due other factors like ensuring not to)
- inkyoto 5y agoYou do realise that there is such a thing called sarcasm? That is the whole reason the Darwin Award exists in the first place.
- henriquez 5y agoIt wasn’t clear you were being sarcastic.
- inkyoto 5y agoThe chain of reasoning: people are trying to protect themselves from the purported 5G irradiation -> they start wearing pendants that emit the ionising radiation -> when worn 24x7, the amount of the radiation absorbed from the pendant is sufficient to induce harm to the human cellular DNA -> sarcastic conclusion. The involved in the confabulation perhaps ought to have read the article before expressing their quick judgement.
- EdSchouten 5y agoIn related news, the Dutch government issues a warning earlier this week about radioactive necklaces, wrist bands and sleeping masks: https://www.autoriteitnvs.nl/actueel/nieuws/2021/12/16/heeft-u-een-quantum-pendant-anti-5g-hanger-of-negatief-ionen-sieraad-of-slaapmasker-leg-deze-veilig-weg https://www.autoriteitnvs.nl/actueel/nieuws/2021/12/16/heeft... English version: https://english.autoriteitnvs.nl/latest/news/2021/12/16/do-you-have-a-quantum-pendant-anti-5g-pendant-or-a-negative-ion-jewellery-item-or-sleep-mask-if-so-store-it-away-safely https://english.autoriteitnvs.nl/latest/news/2021/12/16/do-y...
- richardwhiuk 5y agoThis is that report, just being re-reported.
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- NicoJuicy 5y agoDon't they know that radioactivity protects against 5G?
- MKais 5y agoHere's a game proposal for news headlines: The Onion or not?
- ADifferentKyle 5y agoYou’re probably aware of it already, but just in case: Reddit.com/r/NotTheOnion
- kristopolous 5y agoSadly the conspiracy theorists will likely interpret this message as a ruse by evil hidden forces proving these toxic things are effective against the supposed mind control waves or whatever they think 5G is doing
- rickspencer3 5y agoI wish that I wasn't plagued by these pesky ethics. It seems like if you are fine taking money by creating solutions to non-problems for suckers and rubes there are so many businesses and business models at your disposal. I spend so much energy every week trying to create real value for customers; meanwhile someone is making money off of this. I conceive of scams like this all the time, but some part of me always keeps me from actually executing.
- ineedasername 5y ago>I wish that I wasn't plagued by these pesky ethics. For $500 I have a necklace that will cure you of those ethics and protect you from 5G!
- quaintdev 5y agoI guess that's exactly the part which prevented so many of us from working on ideas like Facebook. And then someone, who is willing to bend ethics to get what they want, worked on that idea and messed up our world.
- ta988 5y agoAlso prevented many of us to work at Facebook...
- jareklupinski 5y agoimo, good! that's empathy i try to convince everyone with a scammy idea to think twice, simply by asking how they would feel if someone else had tried that same scam on their mom/dad/grandparents, and what they would do to the scammer another trick is "how would your mother feel if she knew you make money by scamming", but thats a bit more pointed and reserved for actual friends since it can lead to a fight the few % who would actually scam their own mother, bless them. i'm just happy the total number of scammers to people is still <5% ish :)
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- h2odragon 5y agoWhy go to the extra expense when the audience will presumably be totally happy with inert materials? Like "Audiophile rocks" made "with cast resins". Also: https://gizmodo.com/the-thorium-lantern-your-opportunity-for-retail-radiat-5889732 https://gizmodo.com/the-thorium-lantern-your-opportunity-for...
- treeman79 5y ago20 something years ago a classmate in a college programming class kept having problems with all his work being erased. All the disks he used kept going bad. After observing what he was doing for a few minutes, I asked him “Is that bracelet magnet?” Problem solved
- satisfice 5y agoIn a world of flat earthers and Qanon and Ivermectin hype, there must be a lot of people who believe that “radioactivity” is just a myth pushed by the deep state to keep us from discovering magic and immortality.
- me_me_me 5y agoSo it will protect you from death from 5g by killing you faster with radiation? Technically true