I don't think "read Conan the Barbarian" is the main takeaway of that, though I'm sure "rays" was a trope in fiction. Quack "radioactive medicines" actually h

I don't think "read Conan the Barbarian" is the main takeaway of that, though I'm sure "rays" was a trope in fiction. Quack "radioactive medicines" actually happened to people. Product darwinism and actual customer darwinism. See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/index.html https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioa... https://histmed.collegeofphysicians.org/for-students/radium/ https://histmed.collegeofphysicians.org/for-students/radium/ https://www.dannydutch.com/post/the-strange-story-of-eben-byers-the-man-that-drank-radium-until-his-jaw-fell-off# https://www.dannydutch.com/post/the-strange-story-of-eben-by... https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-lethal-legacy-of-early-20th-century-radiation-quackery/2020/02/14/ed1fd724-37c9-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-lethal-legacy-of-e...