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Radioactive tracers, not radioactive material. The media loves to hype this up. Essentially, what you get injected in you whenever you go for a CT scan, except
by kunai 13y ago
Radioactive tracers, not radioactive material. The media loves to hype this up.
Essentially, what you get injected in you whenever you go for a CT scan, except this was a far, far lower dose.
Stupid sensationalism.
- peterpathname 13y agoradioactive tracers do constitute radioactive material. Stupd semantics. Ypu can choose to have a CT scan, and good for you: the scandal here is that experiments were performed without the children or their parents having an opportunity to give informed consent.
- raverbashing 13y agoYes, do you know what else constitutes a radioactive material? A Banana One of the highest amount of radioactivity in natural products.
- kunai 13y agoThe amount of radiation in those tracers was no more than 0.15µSv. That's five times less than what you get by eating six bananas a day. And I highly doubt that there was no consent beforehand. Perhaps there was excessive legalese or the parents were not notified of the tracers, but that doesn't constitute the assumption that no consent was given.