@TheDerpy Kitty if we're talking gun malfunctions then that's understandable, if we're talking negligent discharge(shooting yourself or others unintentionally) then that's on the handler of the gun.
Thorium is radioactive and can be stored in bones. Because of these facts it has the ability to cause bone cancer many years after the exposure has taken place. Breathing in massive amounts of thorium may be lethal. People will often die of metal poisoning when massive exposure take place.
fadrium No. It’s just bad. Federal limits are in the area of 10 mSv per year with a maximum limit of 50 mSv over a five year period. To dose out in only 166 days is a sizeable amount to commit in ignorance.
@@Larken42 he's memeing, it's a phrase from the HBO documentary on chernobyl where one of the reactor techs remarks "not great not terrible" to the initial reading of 3.6 roentgen (3.6 being a meme itself now). It's a very good documentary, covers the sceince behind the meltdown better than any other to date.
Charles Lambert Shorter name: less deadly; longer name: more deadly. We'll change sodium benzoate to benso & thorium dioxide to monothorium dieoxygenium.
Exactly! If constant daily exposure from a single bracelet is bad, then what is it like MAKING these ridiculous things? People working day after day shoveling radioactive powder into little pen-shaped vibrators all so that some scammer can make a buck. Shameful.
I saw a seller of this on the street, and they had a Geiger counter on the table. They were showing how they Geiger counter was “picking up radiation from 5g, but it was their own bracelet. They put the bracket next to the counter, and turned the counter off. They then pretended that they had simply “pressed the button to get a new reading” and remarked on how it was no longer showing a number. They then moved the bracelet farther away, and turned it back on, pretending that the reading was from “ the new reading without the bracelet.” They know it’s radioactive and they’re using that to trick people
@@gabriels3909 Keep using it and see what happens :) Genuinely though, we don’t care and we don’t buy the negative ion woo. No need to say this in every single comment thread, because nobody is convinced
Yup, I used to have a "quantum biophysics negative ion patch" specifically as a cheap thorium radiation test source for making radiation detectors. For $2 it actually works really well for that purpose.
tbh it'd be quite sad to lose this massive source of radioactive material to make r- i wont finish that, dont want the government stalking me more than they already do
you could just go to the rocky mountains and pick up a uranium rock. or to California beaches and pick up thorium sand. i think that's why this stuff is legal because you can just go get the stuff that's in them. the real danger is the deception of it being beneficial to your health.
@@thecommenterabc6122 /whoosh has been around before r/whoosh. also, welcome to the internet, you seen to be new here and don't understand that no one cares what you think.
@@thecommenterabc6122 well, yes, it is a paradox.... but i fail to see how that makes my point moot...... you do realize that a paradoxical statement, no matter how self-contradicting it seems, still holds water. the text book definition of a paradox, copied from google, is "a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true." your acting like a paradoxical statement is a double negative...... it's not... it's like your an idiot or something... not that i care it's just confusing.
I lived in Japan for 11 and a half years and I was shocked at the contrast between the IMAGE Japan puts out there of a hyper modern society and the REALITY on the ground of Japan as an unregulated heaven for quackery. There are so many terrible products in Japanese drugstores ranging from, as you mentioned, supposedly ionized face cream, to pads you put on your feet to supposedly suck out bad "toxins", to cosmetic procedures that can actually cause severe side effects such as injecting mineral oils into the face.
I remember a RUclipsr accidentally putting a banana on one of these anti toxic pads (he bought them only for the video about them) and he laughed that there are toxins in his banana.
I once bought a small vial of powder from a 7/11 in japan it claimed that if you dipped a cigarette into it and then lit up and started smoking it would some how convert the cigarette smoke into healthy protein for your body🤦♂️
Yeah, I love my salt lamp! My grandma got it for me for Christmas because she heard all the negative ion BS, but I legitimately love the soft dim glow for when I'm getting ready in the morning and I don't want bright light.
Lol, yes it is my good sir, may I interest you in this negative ion inhaler? Isn't that a cigarette? Only to the uneducated, sir. But you and I know otherwise.
I know this video was quite a while ago. A friend of mine who is afraid of 5G... (A subject for another time) bought these stick-on pads for your phone to protect yourself from 5G radiation. 🙄 Anyway, as an electrical engineer I made some tests, they did nothing to stop RF. Interestingly, I put them near a Geiger counter and could not believe what I saw!!! The glue used to stick these on is loaded with thorium! I will say that again, the adhesive is loaded with thorium. The 4 of them together, we're showing just north of two mcs!! Imagine keeping that in your pocket all day, occasionally removing it for 30 minutes at a time to put it near your head. I can only imagine when the adhesive starts to decay and particles become airborne. These are another Amazon product. I only tested one brand, but I see that they sell many.
My mum bought me one of these pendants for my birthday last year, I thought “heh, why not wear it” didn’t think it’d cause any harm. 19 months later I’m constantly exhausted.... *quickly removes it*
I'd much prefer simple fraud than actually dangerous products being on the market. At least with fraud the only thing hurting is gullible people's wallets...
4 months later and these are still sold on amazon. There are reviews from people a couple of weeks ago that bought them and think they're somehow helping them with their balance. And they don't mean qi balance, they mean not falling over as much anymore. So presumably old people that have trouble with their sense of balance are poisoning themselves with radiactive stuff...without knowing it. Unbelievable, yet it's still continuing...
Uh yeah that's scary af, I struggle with balance because of mobility issues Eustachian tube dysfunction(thanks great grandma for passing that one down to me obvious sarcasm) menieres disease dystaxia and multiple concussions from middle school as well as oxygen starvation during birth and I'm pretty sure being irradiated by a little silicone pendant loaded with thorium dioxide powder would make those WAY worse let alone give you cancer or brain problems like neurodegeneration. Even though my quality of life is so bad because of my conditions I still wouldn't be desperate enough to touch that thing, I'm also concerned about the old folks who are actually falling for this as they might not have anyone around to check in on them and guide em away from this stuff :(
@@blarghinatelazer9394 negative ions in general aren't harmful to my understanding (just, not beneficial), when they're generated by electricity or a candle in the room or something similarly innocuous (and as Big Clive pointed out, they can attract the dust in a room to a central position, if that's a goal you have). The problem here is these products are using radioactivity as a "convenient" power and ion source.. since technically alpha and beta particles are ions. They're just, uh, radioactive, very high energy ones.
@@blarghinatelazer9394 negative ions in general aren't harmful to my understanding (just, not beneficial), when they're generated by electricity or a candle in the room or something similarly innocuous (and as Big Clive pointed out, they can attract the dust in a room to a central position, if that's a goal you have). The problem here is these products are using radioactivity as a "convenient" power and ion source.. since technically alpha and beta particles are ions. They're just, uh, radioactive, very high energy ones.
I had a balance band (negative ion emitting) my mother made me wear for 3 years before the rubber ripped on the back. I really hate to think how much radiation I may have been exposed to
@@Cbd_7ohm Mine did the same and she does, since it's literally her job lol. Tbh I don't recommend growing up in this kind of environment. I was denied actual healthcare for pretty much all of my life.
11:43 "imagine sleeping with these things on" Well last time i went to China they were selling special 'negative ion latex pillows', now I'm really glad I didn't buy them.
Why would they worry about chernobyl? They have healing crystals, vitamin C, mercury is in retrograde, and they're unvaccinated. Clearly they're immortal. There's really nothing to fear. You would understand if you were smart enough to take vegan glutenfree all natural organic herbal suppository health supplements, and got coffee enemas once a week to detox.
Aren't the elephant's foot danger levels way lower after all these years? I'm pretty sure it's still dangerous as shit, but probably not as deadly as when it first formed. I ask because I assume the real dangerous stuff had really short half-lives so it probably already decayed into something less radioactive. But what do I know, I just push buttons :D.
@@GoldSrc_ You'd be absolutely fine with that suit of yours (if only it had a helmet)... I do think you're right about the radiation levels being lower, but they'd be enough to teach the woo crowd a lesson they'd remember for the rest of their lives. Which still wouldn't be all that long.
That first part about the salt lamp explains so much. I thought they were pretty, looked up prices and have been wondering why they're charging so much for a light bulb in a piece of salt ever since.
It's a massive scam! 😆 remember when that guy sold millions of pounds worth of rocks with a USB cable stuck in them... there are many ways to take money from gullible people
I got mine from the dollar store for $5. It has a color changing LED inside. I don't believe it does a single thing for my health other than completely satisfying my goblin brain's desire to have glowing rocks in my house.
@KattriellaDoesStuff relatable, I had to get rid of mine because I live in a humid place, and it started "crying." Which caused everything around it to rust.
For those not in the know: GOOP is a company ran by a famous American actress that sells fake medicines and stupid housewares for extremely exorbitant prices! Imagine a scummy pharmaceutical company mixed with HomeGoods
@@MandrakeFernflower so how does the rotten fish candle qualify a medicine fake or otherwise is gwyneth paltrow actually claiming the smell of her rotten orifice has health benifits?
They can sell guns tho, nothing’s stopping them. And there’s not enough buyers of organs for it to really be profitable. And they do sell drug, just not illegal ones
I will admit that I was 1 of those people who bought a salt lamp years ago at a Trade Show. I forget what the seller claimed that it could do, but it was reasonable & I thought it looked cool. And it wasn't too expensive, I think around $20 CAD. Plus the lightbulb is easy to replace (just a Christmas ornament bulb), for those nights where I just wanna bath in the warm soft glow of my lamp. I was honestly kinda happy that you showed that it wasn't radioactive. I still have it sitting on a spot above my computer to this day. While I haven't lit it up in a long time, I think it's a nice decoration.
Also helps with some of the recommendations for products you've already bought. I mean, you'll still get a recommendation to rebuy your vacuum a week later, which sucks enough to just rub Amazon on your floor sometimes, but it's a little less common if you delete the vacuum from your history.
I bought my niece a salt lamp for Christmas thinking that it was just supposed to be a pretty light. Had no idea about the negative ion thing, glad they’re not radioactive I guess 🙄
On a daily basis we get hit with radiation, as long as you don't just press the object to your body for periods of time it won't hurt you. Just don't ingest it.
Seriously, and it doesn't even work better than a shiny sticker on the inside somewhere. I guess this is what happens when we bypass a hundred years of safety regulations to buy slightly cheaper garbage online.
What's terrifying is all the people being occupationally exposed to these in *bulk*, distributing, warehousing, manufacturing, etc. I don't have any clue how this is even happening, honestly.
@@beware_the_moose you could probably see the spike in cancer on a map whenever the factories are, and I'll bet they don't have anything in the way of dust mitigation to keep it all out of their lungs
@@kinganonymous4844 *I am the Bane of Vegetables, the Devourer of Fruit, the One which you heard about in your Math problems. I eat in multiples of 3, 5 and sometimes even 9. Fear me, for I am the very reason why PEMDAS exist: my appetite cannot be measured even with the most complicated equation*
Well, at least Th-232 has a very long half-life of 14.05 billion years. It's only mildly radioactive. Guarapari Beach in Brazil is a thorium-rich sanded beach which will make a Geiger-Müller counter scream, and that will give a full-body dose. To put it in perspective, radium-226 is about 8.8 million times more radioactive than thorium-232. 1 microgram (1 microcurie) of radium-226 would have about the same activity as about 8.8 grams of thorium-232, since Ra-226 has a much shorter half-life of 1600 years, and radium is in the same group as calcium, making it a "bone seeker". Th-232 is relatively safe, as long as you don't ingest or inhale much of it. It's toxicity is more of an issue than its radioactivity, especially if the thorium compound is water-soluble. These should be sold as check sources or chemicals, not these dumb, new age products! Because this just causes more fear to those who don't have a good understanding of what radioactivity is, and I enjoy the study of radioactivity!
My doctor had a bunch of bright yellow and red pottery from the 1920s. I happened to have my gieger counter on me(cause i always carry) and he had pottery that made 10.6uSv/h! It was quite fun.
@@toryknotts8026 he was rather concerned at first but thought it was rather fascinating after I explained that it wasn't too dangerous as long as he didn't eat it or sleep on it.
I love how conspiracy theorists build their entire identity around not blindly following what someone says but as long as you tell them your product has "special gamma energy fields" they will gladly consume without question.
there are a lot of conspiracy theory. wendigoon made 10hours video on conspiracy theory iceberg. using conspiracy theorist as blanket statement is disingenuous. i myself a conspiracy theorist on geopolitic and not on new age health bullshit like this.
I just emailed this video to CBC Marketplace, they're an investigative journalism show here in Canada that focuses on shady business practices. Hopefully they'll look into this...
@@the1observer ah yes the “woke” dude who is actually just privileged and has access to labs instead of looking at news sites, then looks down upon people who don’t know where or how to see primary sources or can’t afford to look at studies on google scholar and the like. How smart... :|
@@the1observer wow you’re doing a lot of jumping to conclusions there. When did I say I wear a double mask? And yes, in this pandemic, I have a high risk family member so I’m staying away from people and wearing a mask. why does that invalidate my point
Niles Black Not really, it’s a Wall Street Journal article from 1932. A Havard dropout dissolved some uranium in water and claimed to be a doctor. He gave this uranium water besides others to a guy who had broken his arm. That guy then lost most of his jaw and died of radiation poisoning. Our chemistry teacher showed us the article a while ago.
That's because radium-226 has a much shorter half-life than thorium-232, and radium is a "bone seeker", since it's in the same group as calcium on the periodic table. Thorium-232 is just not very radioactive. It's about 8.8 million times less radioactive than radium-226 in specific activity. That's why you won't find grams, or even milligrams of radium-226 available. It has a much shorter half-life-1600 years, whereas thorium-232 has a half-life of about 14.05 billion years. A typical Ra-226 wristwatch only contains about 1 microgram of material, whereas you'd need 8.8 grams of Th-232 to get the same activity. These products are bogus, and should be labeled ”Caution: Radioactive. Contains NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials)". I would be happy if these were sold as check sources or chemicals, but putting them in these stupid new age woo-woo products is what leads to more fear to someone who doesn't know much about radioactivity or chemistry. I see the same thing with plutonium, even though americium-Am-241 specifically, is found in ionization smoke detectors, and Am-241 is about 55 times more radioactive than Pu-239, and it's just as radiotoxic, and Am-241 emits vastly more gamma rays (low-energy) compared to Pu-239, and they're both alpha emitters. Also, many older Soviet smoke detectors used Pu-239, like the RID-1 (РИД-1).
@@KarbineKyle I do understand that thorium is a lot less radioactive and that the amount in those bracelets is barely harmful on short exposure. I was merely referring to the simillarity in claimed benefit from these products when in reality using them as intended is much more harmful than helpful.
Low band 5G uses the same frequency bands as historic TV broadcast, 3G/4G mobile and other ISM band gadgets, Mid band 5G uses frequencies around wifi and bluetooth bands, these have been around for years, these products have zero effects at these radio frequencies and are just a marketing ploy with zero benefits. High band 5G is not able to penetrate the skin at anywhere near the distance of mid band 2.4Ghz. If people are that concerned do not carry a mobile phone, any bluetooth gadgets, switch of you wifi router and hide in a lead lined box for the rest of your life.
@@jerrylobster1149 Earthquakes are planned around and countered in modern designs, it wasn't the earthquake that caused Fukushima, it was the flooding, which can be accounted for in newer reactors being built. Also yeah mostly China but Japan was also mentioned in the video and China's pretty liberal with nuclear energy so the joke wouldn't work with them.
@@todo9633 Also that was the Company Managers refusing to follow the engineer's advice to build it with Flooding defences but they wanted to build a copy of the US Midwest Reactors... the ones designed to survive Tornado Hits.
Thought of this video when I heard about that high school that has abnormally high rates of brain cancer (same school that was evacuated in 1997 because a teacher with a Geiger counter found a radioactive rock. Students were potentially exposed to the radiation from that rock for 8 hours every weekday for 4 years. I wonder what's causing their cancer?)
The "negative ion meter" on the blanket is actually just an electrometer for measuring static charge, used to survey and validate electronics industry ESD defence measures...
Seriously alternative “healing” products meant to be consumed have and still do include literal bleach, hydrogen peroxide, turpentine (a paint stripper), and human urine.
I'm glad I'm not the only one! Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (traveling wave are good too) are the FUTURE! ...just not the future for the USA because their laws are too strict to let a reactor like that ever get built...
Another issue with thorium and alpha radiation...since the devices shed thorium powder, you are going to end up with internal contamination. And when it is internal, alpha is *by far* the most dangerous type of radiation. When I got a geiger counter I made sure to get one that was capable of detecting alpha. We need to be using this thorium to make pebble bed thorium reactors for safe clean energy, not exposing people to it.
Yeah, the flip side of it not penning far means it's FAR more likely to be dumping all it's energy into the first thing it finds, or to just bounce around and cause despair like a psychotic pinball.
@@Fred_the_1996 Yep, chemistry student here, it would need to release some form of energy. (I forget what type of energy specifically, I don't have my chemistry textbook with me.) Edit: Gain, sorry. Oops! I forgot it was splitting into negative ions..
@@syweb2 Hmmm, might be possible if there were a ton of electrons just floating about, but that's not natural conditions in Earth's atmosphere so it's irrelevant in the context of normal use.
@@nikkiofthevalley 'Trust me, I did a quick google search and essential oils can make it gain electrons and emit good health particles that treat covid' - Susan
Doctapeppur No, he’s making a point on how deceptive every day products can be without us having a clue. Flour was just an example of a thing we wouldn’t take notice if they added something dangerous to it.
This video is awesome, I wish I'd found your channel earlier! The most terrifying part, for me, was when you showed the 'negative ion' powders for sale; when people start inhaling even tiny amounts of dust their committed effective dose goes up by many orders of magnitude.
I used to work for a company that made process control equipment for paper mills. It used a radioactive source that emitted alpha particles. It worked because the paper would stop part of the alpha particles. How much radiation it stopped was dependent on the thickness of the paper. At least a little bit of the radiation had to get through for the equipment to measure the weight of the paper. The radioactive source was sealed in an armoured scanning head well away from any of the mill workers.
Alpha particles can be stopped by a thick sheet of paper. That is why they can be used to compute the weight of a sheet of paper as it is being made. The calculated weight of the paper is dependent on how much of the alpha particle radiation gets through the paper. People (including me) were arround the scanning heads every day with no harmful effects. An Alpha particle is a helium nucleus without the electrons. It cannot get through your skin.
@@MD-vs9ff Presumably because light penetrates the paper too easily to enable precise measurements of thickness differences which, in the case of paper, can easily be on the order of microns.
@@richardyoung5217 I suspect the scanning heads not hurting you was because they were properly shielded, not because they were inherently safe. Now if you were, for some reason, instead frequently in the way of the alpha particle beam, you wouldn't be so confident.
*Side Effects May Include:* Schizophrenia, Permanent Blindness, Cancer, Mega-Cancer, Sudden Loss of Limbs and Skin, Getting Fried Alive Till' You're Nothing But A Big Pile Of KFC and Minor Nausea.
@@brandonvelde5774 if you wear the bracelet for 166 days you would've overdone a worker in a nuclear plant body capacity of radiation (and I mean a whole year kind if radiation). Like damm one wrist receiving the same radiation that someone's body who works whith it for 8 or more hours sounds healthy.
I’m a radiation safety technician at a nuclear power plant and “don’t lick things” is my frequent go to phrase before letting people go do work and it is always meant and received as humorous… until he said it in this video and now I’m cringing.
On the back of this video I actually bought one of the pendants on ebay to see how radioactive they were for myself, and sure enough it was. What I wasn't expecting however is the plastic "authenticity card" that came in its box was *also* radioactive - in fact more so than the pendant itself!
It's the healthy glow situational over again (there was a time where people thought uranium was good for you, nicknamed it a healthy glow because they would literally glow from the products)
Yikes! I find it insane that a quack product would actually contain anything unusual at all, like why even add the thorium powder when you could just make a plastic bracket and be done with it.
I know dosimetry is super hard but I wanted to note a few things: The detectors you use have to be calibrated to the specific isotope, usually gamma only instruments are calibrated for H*10 (Ambient dose equivalent) of Cs-137. The mica-window instruments are usually used for measuring surface contamination and so they are usually calibrated for a single isotope and most importantly activity not dose rate. So your doserate measurements are probably very off. Another thing to note is that the thorium decay chain releases radioactive radon gas which decays with alpha decay. So no matter how much paper you put around that sample, radon gas will still seep out :) I love your videos btw, keep up the good work 💜
I'm fairly certain those grey spheres aren't ceramic, but tourmaline mineral balls. I have some for my aquarium, as they slowly dissolve into the water column, increasing hardness with ions like calcium to support invertebrate shell growth. They look exactly like mine, which are a little powdery, and the tourmaline description fits exactly.
It's really great to see someone holding con artists & frauds accountable for their lack of real action, well worth the subscription mate, cheers!!! 👍👍
@@johnbyrd7400 What??? In order to make thorium usable for a power plant you would need to bombard it with neutrons to turn Th 232 into Th 233 which can then undergo beta decay to protactinium 233 then beta decay to uranium 233. Do you even know what it takes to create a high enough energy neutron beam to make this a viable method for energy production. A FUCKEN BREEDER REACTOR.
I think there are like 6-7 orders of magnitude more people that buy into such claims than you wrote. With nine nines there would only be 8 people on earth that bought it.
On asbestos, nah. Plenty of things you can sub in, but the benefits of using asbestos (it hates being on fire) were actually quantifiable. Not saying it should ever see use again outside of extremely controlled circumstances, but it didn't increase your energy levels while killing you, it kept you off fire and killed you.
Asbestos is still a threat in Sweden. A lot of buildings from the 50s are still around with asbestos fibers in pipe insulation, vinyl flooring, heating ducts etc. Building owners are responsible for inventorying and testing for presence of asbestos but this seems to be largely ignored as it adds substantial costs. The general public seems to have forgotten this danger, even construction workers.
12:50 for comparison: This is ~10x the average yearly dose we get. Or when compared with only natural radiation (no medicine), it's ~20x the average yearly dose.
just had mine arrive today (pendant) and thank GOD i had enough common sense to say to myself "hm... I wonder how exactly does this work" and ended up finding your video in the process. Needless to say, i put it back in the packaging and sending it back for refund ASAP.
I've had pendant 3 yrs. No rubber or plastic, it's glass or crystal..however, this video is what got me to rip it off. Been suffering with skin weirdness, throat tumors and laundry list of other annoying and disconserting ailments. Thought I did my homework but apparently issue of Thorium never came to study!! So, tell your friends etc...DO NOT INVEST OR APPLY TO HUMAN BODY!!! As if our air(chems)water, earth aren't dangerous enough now just wear it!!! OMG help us!!! Well, gonna look to feeling better without the neg ion noose. Stay strong. Thanks
Literally same lol I impulse purchased a pendant and bracelet and it just came in today. And I was too interested in how it works.. also sending it back
Oh My God, thank you for the video. I was SO close to starting selling one of these products on my online store, but of course, I wanted to check if the information and studies were legitimate. This video made it super easy for me to understand. Thank you so much
I just wanted to say that I love your channel. Your channel is what you got me interested in biology and recently physics. Thanks for posting such quality videos.
@Peter Parlee-Carr I was making a history joke, as in ancient China it was quite popular in the medical business, especially as a court physician, to try manufacturing immortality-granting substances out of mercury, specifically the mineral cinnabar. This was because the medical community believed at that time that ingestion of precious substances, especially chemically durable ones (of which cinnabar was one), would extend the lifespan of the consumer. If a physician discovered the recipe for the elixir, they would gain much fame and prominence among the medical community, and old myths stated that prominent and skilled physicians would, upon their deaths, be rewarded with (cushy) medical research positions in the celestial bureaucracy of China's afterlife. The joke plays of the fact that many of these thorium-rich wristbands are made in China and are marketed as being able to improve your lifespan. So now the Chinese physicians are making elixirs of immortality out of thorium and not mercury.
I was also tempted for ages and finally got one recently for around 100€. When I left the family home around two decades ago I took some stuffs, including a small malachite box with mineral samples from Congo (we spent a few years in former Zaïre when I was a kid). I lived with that stuff for one year in my student room in a drawer between my bed and at an arm reach of the desk with the pc where I spent most of my time when at home. Then when I moved it wasn't in the room I slept anymore but still less than two meters from where I usually sat, for a few years, quite forgotten, before I finally had a basement and put it there. The geiger counter on direct contact of the box (closed) is registering over 20µS/h (where I live, from offcial sources, the background radiation outside is around 0,11µS/h. I register around 0,17-18µS/h. in my flat). When I had it in my single room, I could touch the small furniture it was in from my desk, were I estimate the dose between 1,5 and 3µS/h. At least the radiation is falling very quickly with distance (at least the one I was able to detect with my geiger counter, it' supposed to pick-up x-rays but I'm not convinced of it, as for the alpha particles), and when I slept in the same room it was close to my feet and not my head. Some other parts of my anatomy were... in between. Let's say that I unknowingly spent some years as an airliner crew, and that I should definitely stop smoking. If you are wondering, with that geiger counter I cannot tell the radiation of bananas from the background radation, nor anything else in my place, actually, including the smoke detector (from the outside of it, I prefer to leave the americium where it is).
The one he uses in the video is pretty good, I have one. I found a piece of uranium glass randomly in the house with it, which was a surprise, to say the least..
Healing magnet bracelets really work! They'll keep metal shavings from getting into your eyes while drilling ferrous metals :p Seriously, I have considered purchasing a couple just for when I'm drilling into door frames, normally stick a magnet on a piece of wire to my drill but that solution is clunky compared to a bracelet.
*sees video* Me: How Radioactive? *clicks video and sees scientific equipment and hears a reasonable voice* Me: Ah, so a bit too Radioactive I presume?
My mom got the bracelet with the black beads and told me it’s supposed to help me feel better and clearer, and I just knew something was up. If people understood what these products actually did these companies would be out of business lol.
@The Cave Dweller all I had to do was point out how the bracelet was tight enough to leave black marks on her skin and I haven’t seen her use them since.
@@gabriels3909 I mean like I said above, I was unwilling to wear it after I saw that it left a big black imprint on my skin. Nothing should leave such a mark upon you’re skin after wearing it for a couple of hours.
@baconaterlover5399 I wouldn't necessarily say that. Some uncoated metal jewelry will leave marks and it's fine, keyword being "some". I've got a couple copper rings and they leave green smudges on my fingers, it's normal.
I saw that toothbrush the other day online. I claims you don't need toothpaste, you just need to dip it in water. I was skeptical, but i thought it might be good for travel if it works. Luckily i didn't buy it. It's kind of scary how easy it is to buy something like this on accident.
Check out part 2 where we got some of these companies shut down! ruclips.net/video/3BA5bw1EV5I/видео.html
Huh, 6 minutes ago, lucky
Nice
modern radium water.
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VICTORY
No wonder the Karens are being extra for the past few years. They were enhanced with Gamma Radiation and became Karen Hulks!
"the real danger happens when you use these products as intended" is probably the most damning thing you can say about a product
*Unless it's a weapon
Small arms I guess work as intended.
And kill.
@@thederpykitty6042That's a fatal flaw of the user, then.
@TheDerpy Kitty if we're talking gun malfunctions then that's understandable, if we're talking negligent discharge(shooting yourself or others unintentionally) then that's on the handler of the gun.
@@commscan314 mars automatic pistol
Well that's a bit of a step backwards. It's very reminiscent of the radium health drinks.
Maybe soon your MRE video will come true with a ‘negative ion heater’
@@NosirrbroIn my I read the "negative ion heater" in big clives voce
The negative ion tester himself!
Hey clive, doesn't surprize that you are also here!
Quite the wetting drink! I hear if you chugged enough of them, you could melt from the inside out, like the wicked witch. Hey ya Clive!
"The real danger is when the products are used as intended."
Fantastic!
I know right
I read that the SECOND he said it and honestly it kinda scared me
that's China.
@@AaronSchwarz42 i like how, funnily enough, the only thing that i found offensive and objective of your comment was the part abt ideology and culture
@@AaronSchwarz42 It's not China, it's capitalism dummy.
"This radioactive product is a miracle cure"
Hold up
I thought we already went through this time period in the world history
While time is a straight line, life sure treats it like a circle.
Soon we'll be unrapping mummies for fun
the 20s will always be the 20s, even if we're talking about different centuries
Miracle source of cancer*
Almost exactly a hundred years ago, too. What a coincidence?
When "just fraud" is an improvement...
Much better than cancer on a bracelet
@@thegamingcat7050 Oh, I agree.
lots of those snake oil 'health' products will probably do way better simply acting as placebos
Thorium is radioactive and can be stored in bones. Because of these facts it has the ability to cause bone cancer many years after the exposure has taken place. Breathing in massive amounts of thorium may be lethal. People will often die of metal poisoning when massive exposure take place.
I took that from google just so uk
Fun fact: At 5 uSv/hr, it would only take 166 days to exceed the maximum federally allowed annual radiation exposure for a nuclear power plant worker.
And it's all right in a tiny circle on your wrist
Have fun with that bracelet shaped melanoma
Not great not terrible.
fadrium No. It’s just bad. Federal limits are in the area of 10 mSv per year with a maximum limit of 50 mSv over a five year period. To dose out in only 166 days is a sizeable amount to commit in ignorance.
@@Larken42 he's memeing, it's a phrase from the HBO documentary on chernobyl where one of the reactor techs remarks "not great not terrible" to the initial reading of 3.6 roentgen (3.6 being a meme itself now). It's a very good documentary, covers the sceince behind the meltdown better than any other to date.
Great to see things independently tested.
4:27 Wellness product: "it works as an anti-oxidant"
Also wellness product: *generates free oxygen radicals*
PastaAivo It should be advertised as a pro-oxidant instead.
hahahaha
Nothing is free something some were is producing it, so it is radioactive decay witch is natural in some cases, so it's not free
also how does a neutral molecule split into 2 negative ions
@@MasterVirusGaming_MVG that's not what "free" means in this context, mister master gamer
Conspiracy theorist: "5G emits dangerous, cancer causing radiation!" *wears thorium bracelet to protect themselves from it*
no joke. the real problem is willful stupidity.
They say fight fire with fire🤷
@Punkrock Noir wdym
@@punkrocknoir8584quoted from the internet
You should stop using conspiracy theorist as a catch all term for anyone you don't like or disagree with.
We really are back in the 20s hyping up those lovely radiation-filled products!
Well we are in the 20s, just a different century this time
20s are the chaos decade, since, like, a few centuries ago.
@@Quazex The more thing's change the more they stay the same.
The difference now is that they're hiding the fact that they're radioactive, whereas back then they didn't know enough about radiation to do so.
@@californium-2526 "A few centuries"
>Be scared of regulated processed food, with every ingredient described on the package
>Love cheap radiation pellets with fancy names and designs
Obviously we just need to change the IUPAC nomenclature to sound more cutesy. Or maybe in proportion to its actual danger level.
Charles Lambert Actually, most of it is not even IUPAC, but common names. So I doubt that would change anything.
Charles Lambert Shorter name: less deadly; longer name: more deadly. We'll change sodium benzoate to benso & thorium dioxide to monothorium dieoxygenium.
@@DeeFeeCee Add the suffix "of death" for radioactive elements.
Well duh! We can pronounce thorium dioxide easily and therefore it's safe! But dihydrogen monoxide is harder to say and therefore it'd bad! /s
I can't stop thinking about the workers that make these and how dangerous the working environment may be.
Exactly! If constant daily exposure from a single bracelet is bad, then what is it like MAKING these ridiculous things? People working day after day shoveling radioactive powder into little pen-shaped vibrators all so that some scammer can make a buck. Shameful.
The new radium girls.
I can.
@@batzzz2044took the comment right out from my mouth
@@simunatorjust like their jaws
I saw a seller of this on the street, and they had a Geiger counter on the table. They were showing how they Geiger counter was “picking up radiation from 5g, but it was their own bracelet. They put the bracket next to the counter, and turned the counter off. They then pretended that they had simply “pressed the button to get a new reading” and remarked on how it was no longer showing a number. They then moved the bracelet farther away, and turned it back on, pretending that the reading was from “ the new reading without the bracelet.” They know it’s radioactive and they’re using that to trick people
This was SIGNIFICANTLY more horrifying than I thought coming into this
Agreed my none radioactive friend, agreed.
@@gabriels3909 Keep using it and see what happens :)
Genuinely though, we don’t care and we don’t buy the negative ion woo. No need to say this in every single comment thread, because nobody is convinced
Yup, I used to have a "quantum biophysics negative ion patch" specifically as a cheap thorium radiation test source for making radiation detectors. For $2 it actually works really well for that purpose.
tbh it'd be quite sad to lose this massive source of radioactive material to make r-
i wont finish that, dont want the government stalking me more than they already do
"quantum biophysics negative ion patch" ? ... I am awestruck at that one
Lol, that's a genius way of getting your radioaktive material.
@@heroslippy6666 Well, do you have a solution to the corrosion problem in LFTRs? If not then they are quite a few decades away.
you could just go to the rocky mountains and pick up a uranium rock. or to California beaches and pick up thorium sand. i think that's why this stuff is legal because you can just go get the stuff that's in them. the real danger is the deception of it being beneficial to your health.
"Ha, the people of the past were so stupid, radium blankets, radium paint! So silly!"
Meanwhile, in the WOOOOORLD OF TOMORROW!
The5lacker .
Really.
Bet you you believe in biblical miricles to.
@@gingerbread1032 first
/whooosh
second
learn to spell.
@@thecommenterabc6122 /whoosh has been around before r/whoosh.
also, welcome to the internet, you seen to be new here and don't understand that no one cares what you think.
The Commenter
Thank you commenter.
@@thecommenterabc6122 well, yes, it is a paradox.... but i fail to see how that makes my point moot......
you do realize that a paradoxical statement, no matter how self-contradicting it seems, still holds water.
the text book definition of a paradox, copied from google, is "a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true."
your acting like a paradoxical statement is a double negative...... it's not...
it's like your an idiot or something... not that i care it's just confusing.
I lived in Japan for 11 and a half years and I was shocked at the contrast between the IMAGE Japan puts out there of a hyper modern society and the REALITY on the ground of Japan as an unregulated heaven for quackery. There are so many terrible products in Japanese drugstores ranging from, as you mentioned, supposedly ionized face cream, to pads you put on your feet to supposedly suck out bad "toxins", to cosmetic procedures that can actually cause severe side effects such as injecting mineral oils into the face.
Careful, anime profile pictures will tell you you’re wrong 😑
I remember a RUclipsr accidentally putting a banana on one of these anti toxic pads (he bought them only for the video about them) and he laughed that there are toxins in his banana.
@@braderley 😢
@@LooneyClipse its ok we dont mean you baku ......
I once bought a small vial of powder from a 7/11 in japan it claimed that if you dipped a cigarette into it and then lit up and started smoking it would some how convert the cigarette smoke into healthy protein for your body🤦♂️
What I've learned: salt lamps have nice aesthetic but don't actually do anything, and everything else just kills you.
@@matthewlawton9241 don't really like then, they'r really salty
Yeah, I love my salt lamp! My grandma got it for me for Christmas because she heard all the negative ion BS, but I legitimately love the soft dim glow for when I'm getting ready in the morning and I don't want bright light.
@@matthewlawton9241 EXACTLY
@@CristianSalles1 Well its salt. what do you expect.
@@ZachHixsonTutorials Same here, its just nice on my eyes
"Ion tester"
hey wait is that a...
*scrapes at label*
"Geiger counter"
underrated comment
Except Geiger counter costs like 1/10 or 1/20 of price compared to a "rebrand" to Ion Tester.
Lol, yes it is my good sir, may I interest you in this negative ion inhaler?
Isn't that a cigarette?
Only to the uneducated, sir. But you and I know otherwise.
He used this gag in the follow up episode. Awesome!
no it's a health-o-meter
I've had my ion on these criminals. Now I am positive: they ought to be charged
I'll show myself out.
Rad
Cyanide and happiness, would call for a be-heading
Yeah you better leave
🤣🤣🤣
Nerd humor is the best
I'm embarrassed that got a chuckle out of me.
I know this video was quite a while ago. A friend of mine who is afraid of 5G... (A subject for another time) bought these stick-on pads for your phone to protect yourself from 5G radiation. 🙄
Anyway, as an electrical engineer I made some tests, they did nothing to stop RF.
Interestingly, I put them near a Geiger counter and could not believe what I saw!!! The glue used to stick these on is loaded with thorium! I will say that again, the adhesive is loaded with thorium. The 4 of them together, we're showing just north of two mcs!! Imagine keeping that in your pocket all day, occasionally removing it for 30 minutes at a time to put it near your head. I can only imagine when the adhesive starts to decay and particles become airborne.
These are another Amazon product. I only tested one brand, but I see that they sell many.
I don't think there's a need for 5G pads on your phone if your phone can't even do 5G 😂
@@matt_ferralso most phones allow you to disable 5G
@@nolsen42 built in anti 5g no way
Of course they don't block RF. If they did, the phone would stop working...
The absolute genius to believe blocking the thing that makes your phone work would help is honestly a depressing indictment of humanity
My mum bought me one of these pendants for my birthday last year, I thought “heh, why not wear it” didn’t think it’d cause any harm. 19 months later I’m constantly exhausted.... *quickly removes it*
wishing you the best! hope you feel better
I really hope you're okay mate.
do you feel any better
Thanks for the wishes folks! I have to say I'm not 100% but I'm not bed bound for days on end - so that's an improvement. Scary stuff
Sue the company
People moving back to the Fukushima region: "Honey, what happened to all our sheets?"
Amazon: Negative ion sheets, straight from Japan!
I'd much prefer simple fraud than actually dangerous products being on the market. At least with fraud the only thing hurting is gullible people's wallets...
Or the warehouse workers that have to handle them every day
Better rethink this.
Fraud ... and even if it is only by speech or text ... can hurt or kill people.
Nah its so chaotic researchers can mutation breed plants and etc.
Like the organite products 😂
Money, even if it means missing payments for some period, can be recovered a lot easier than tumors after all...
It’s really impressive that the best case scenario is that you were scammed into buying a piece of plastic that isn’t doing anything
Now I want Cody to do a series on refining thorium from negative ion products.
Dude,the govt assholes stalk him enough already.
@@rockytom5889 I've almost completely stopped watching his channel. I want the interesting shit. That's a video I would watch.
@@Skylancer727 such a good video! He killed that glass on his 1st try, I was impressed
4 months later and these are still sold on amazon. There are reviews from people a couple of weeks ago that bought them and think they're somehow helping them with their balance. And they don't mean qi balance, they mean not falling over as much anymore. So presumably old people that have trouble with their sense of balance are poisoning themselves with radiactive stuff...without knowing it. Unbelievable, yet it's still continuing...
Plus their cellular repair is less effective, so they have even higher chances of developing cancer from this...
That is really sad
Uh yeah that's scary af, I struggle with balance because of mobility issues Eustachian tube dysfunction(thanks great grandma for passing that one down to me obvious sarcasm) menieres disease dystaxia and multiple concussions from middle school as well as oxygen starvation during birth and I'm pretty sure being irradiated by a little silicone pendant loaded with thorium dioxide powder would make those WAY worse let alone give you cancer or brain problems like neurodegeneration. Even though my quality of life is so bad because of my conditions I still wouldn't be desperate enough to touch that thing, I'm also concerned about the old folks who are actually falling for this as they might not have anyone around to check in on them and guide em away from this stuff :(
I have a Himalayan salt lamp. I thought they were just supposed to be pretty.
They do look pretty, and apparently won't kill you. Plus, plus.
Yeah. If "hey, this lamp gives me a pretty light" is your only goal with a salt lamp, you're the only person on earth getting what you paid for.
@@blarghinatelazer9394 negative ions in general aren't harmful to my understanding (just, not beneficial), when they're generated by electricity or a candle in the room or something similarly innocuous (and as Big Clive pointed out, they can attract the dust in a room to a central position, if that's a goal you have). The problem here is these products are using radioactivity as a "convenient" power and ion source.. since technically alpha and beta particles are ions. They're just, uh, radioactive, very high energy ones.
@@blarghinatelazer9394 negative ions in general aren't harmful to my understanding (just, not beneficial), when they're generated by electricity or a candle in the room or something similarly innocuous (and as Big Clive pointed out, they can attract the dust in a room to a central position, if that's a goal you have). The problem here is these products are using radioactivity as a "convenient" power and ion source.. since technically alpha and beta particles are ions. They're just, uh, radioactive, very high energy ones.
@@Thirdbase9 they also taste pretty.
"I don't want 5G to give me cancer. I'll let this bracelet do it instead!"
Radiation therapy destroys all cells, including cancer cells. It won't give you cancer.
I had a balance band (negative ion emitting) my mother made me wear for 3 years before the rubber ripped on the back.
I really hate to think how much radiation I may have been exposed to
Your mom probably believes in tarot cards and spirit crystals lol
@@Cbd_7ohm Mine did the same and she does, since it's literally her job lol. Tbh I don't recommend growing up in this kind of environment. I was denied actual healthcare for pretty much all of my life.
Well you got about double the recommended amount of radiation wich isn't to dangerous but still if you get cancer your mother is likely to blame
@@Cbd_7ohmtarot cards are real~
spirit crystals arent
11:43 "imagine sleeping with these things on" Well last time i went to China they were selling special 'negative ion latex pillows', now I'm really glad I didn't buy them.
@GhostDogg o Also big pharma has long patents and evergreening which gives them artificial monopolies
I bought the damn negative ion latex mattress!!!
So when is the alternative crowd gonna start taking healing trips to the elephant's foot in Chernobyl?
Ozzelot hopefully soon
Why would they worry about chernobyl? They have healing crystals, vitamin C, mercury is in retrograde, and they're unvaccinated. Clearly they're immortal. There's really nothing to fear. You would understand if you were smart enough to take vegan glutenfree all natural organic herbal suppository health supplements, and got coffee enemas once a week to detox.
@@wargex tbh the gluten free suppository and coffee enema sounds nice for a Friday night activity.
Aren't the elephant's foot danger levels way lower after all these years?
I'm pretty sure it's still dangerous as shit, but probably not as deadly as when it first formed.
I ask because I assume the real dangerous stuff had really short half-lives so it probably already decayed into something less radioactive.
But what do I know, I just push buttons :D.
@@GoldSrc_ You'd be absolutely fine with that suit of yours (if only it had a helmet)... I do think you're right about the radiation levels being lower, but they'd be enough to teach the woo crowd a lesson they'd remember for the rest of their lives. Which still wouldn't be all that long.
That first part about the salt lamp explains so much. I thought they were pretty, looked up prices and have been wondering why they're charging so much for a light bulb in a piece of salt ever since.
It's a massive scam! 😆 remember when that guy sold millions of pounds worth of rocks with a USB cable stuck in them... there are many ways to take money from gullible people
@@Jawst the USB Pet Rock wasn't a scam though, it worked as advertised.
Its just red veined halite. But don't wash it with water
I got mine from the dollar store for $5. It has a color changing LED inside. I don't believe it does a single thing for my health other than completely satisfying my goblin brain's desire to have glowing rocks in my house.
@KattriellaDoesStuff relatable, I had to get rid of mine because I live in a humid place, and it started "crying." Which caused everything around it to rust.
I thought Himalayan salt lamps were just aesthetic aunt mood lamps lol...
I mean if u never turn it on yeah
my grandma uses it because she thinks they look nice
I have one I got as a reading light because it looked nice.
@@Zdoc9 I licked it too.
granted I was a small kid but still
I have one of those just because I like the look of them
"I'm surprised Goop doesn't sell these"
Best line of the video
Not yet anyways.
Uranium glass dildos in stock next month at goop
Professionals have standards
For those not in the know: GOOP is a company ran by a famous American actress that sells fake medicines and stupid housewares for extremely exorbitant prices!
Imagine a scummy pharmaceutical company mixed with HomeGoods
@@MandrakeFernflower so how does the rotten fish candle qualify a medicine fake or otherwise is gwyneth paltrow actually claiming the smell of her rotten orifice has health benifits?
"If Amazon could sell drugs, guns and human organs...... they probably would." - Aaaaand Subbed
pretty sure anybody would. War and drugs can make a man rich
They can sell guns tho, nothing’s stopping them. And there’s not enough buyers of organs for it to really be profitable. And they do sell drug, just not illegal ones
@@teathesilkwing7616 My uhu glue hasn't run out since last year. Using it to mend sandals and it sure smells good.
@@TheGamingMotionTGM why
@@Void_Inc-0x Cause solvents for drug usage is commercially available. Its fine if you just want to sniff glue briefly.
I will admit that I was 1 of those people who bought a salt lamp years ago at a Trade Show. I forget what the seller claimed that it could do, but it was reasonable & I thought it looked cool. And it wasn't too expensive, I think around $20 CAD. Plus the lightbulb is easy to replace (just a Christmas ornament bulb), for those nights where I just wanna bath in the warm soft glow of my lamp. I was honestly kinda happy that you showed that it wasn't radioactive. I still have it sitting on a spot above my computer to this day. While I haven't lit it up in a long time, I think it's a nice decoration.
About your Amazon recommendations: You can delete entries from your history and that will get rid of all the esoteric crap.
thanks :D
Works great for when you need to buy a... massage wand...
Except it is in your purchase hustory
meoka2368 😏 duly noted
Also helps with some of the recommendations for products you've already bought. I mean, you'll still get a recommendation to rebuy your vacuum a week later, which sucks enough to just rub Amazon on your floor sometimes, but it's a little less common if you delete the vacuum from your history.
I bought my niece a salt lamp for Christmas thinking that it was just supposed to be a pretty light. Had no idea about the negative ion thing, glad they’re not radioactive I guess 🙄
The Himalayan salt does contain some potassium, which would make it ever so slightly radioactive, but that's still basically background levels.
On a daily basis we get hit with radiation, as long as you don't just press the object to your body for periods of time it won't hurt you. Just don't ingest it.
I just like how they look, but a shame it's not radioactive
@@EmeraldCaveKing r/cursedcomments
@@dragonridley tbf if we go with potassium, a banana is a source of radiation xD
This is honestly terrifying... I always thought that these were just rubber with a label on them making some wild claims.
Seriously, and it doesn't even work better than a shiny sticker on the inside somewhere. I guess this is what happens when we bypass a hundred years of safety regulations to buy slightly cheaper garbage online.
and this is just one of many, many scams going on today that are totally legal.
What's terrifying is all the people being occupationally exposed to these in *bulk*, distributing, warehousing, manufacturing, etc. I don't have any clue how this is even happening, honestly.
@@beware_the_moose yeah no kidding
@@beware_the_moose you could probably see the spike in cancer on a map whenever the factories are, and I'll bet they don't have anything in the way of dust mitigation to keep it all out of their lungs
7:47 "..You'd have to eat ~100,000,000 bananas before this was dangerous" Phew, just eaten my 99,999,999th banana, dodged this bullet by a hair
And it is filtered via pee so potassium 40 won't be a problem
damn this guy just completely deleted his hunger debuff 💀💀
Damn! are you my maths teacher?
@@kinganonymous4844 *I am the Bane of Vegetables, the Devourer of Fruit, the One which you heard about in your Math problems. I eat in multiples of 3, 5 and sometimes even 9. Fear me, for I am the very reason why PEMDAS exist: my appetite cannot be measured even with the most complicated equation*
"Ah yes, the RADIATION would kill you!"
"Don't lick them." Love it.
I'm a Radiological Control Technician and I tell new people that all the time.
Pretty sure that's a RadCon standard phrase. I've certainly heard it enough at my job.
I do so love how we all have to be retaught not to lick things, like when we were four or something.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Well in Geology it is encouraged.
Just imagine the state of the people that work at the factories that make them
Oh. My. God.
This comment needs more visibility.
The people making radioactive bracelets with China-level "safety" need more visibility.
It's like those factories where thousands of women were licking their brushes as they painted watches with radioactive ink
Well, at least Th-232 has a very long half-life of 14.05 billion years. It's only mildly radioactive. Guarapari Beach in Brazil is a thorium-rich sanded beach which will make a Geiger-Müller counter scream, and that will give a full-body dose. To put it in perspective, radium-226 is about 8.8 million times more radioactive than thorium-232. 1 microgram (1 microcurie) of radium-226 would have about the same activity as about 8.8 grams of thorium-232, since Ra-226 has a much shorter half-life of 1600 years, and radium is in the same group as calcium, making it a "bone seeker". Th-232 is relatively safe, as long as you don't ingest or inhale much of it. It's toxicity is more of an issue than its radioactivity, especially if the thorium compound is water-soluble. These should be sold as check sources or chemicals, not these dumb, new age products! Because this just causes more fear to those who don't have a good understanding of what radioactivity is, and I enjoy the study of radioactivity!
@JadonGamer well they do give you tumors and brain tumors at that. 5g is dangerous
My doctor had a bunch of bright yellow and red pottery from the 1920s. I happened to have my gieger counter on me(cause i always carry) and he had pottery that made 10.6uSv/h! It was quite fun.
How did he react
@@toryknotts8026 he was rather concerned at first but thought it was rather fascinating after I explained that it wasn't too dangerous as long as he didn't eat it or sleep on it.
this just reminds me of someone eating horse ash shaped into a jar
or pot
Just curious why do you carry a gieger counter around?
I love how conspiracy theorists build their entire identity around not blindly following what someone says but as long as you tell them your product has "special gamma energy fields" they will gladly consume without question.
It's what we call natural selection, I guess...
@@heraut people on the internet don't know what natural selection is
@@aliveslice It's sad but unsurprising. After all the majority of our fellow animals don't ether ^^
there are a lot of conspiracy theory. wendigoon made 10hours video on conspiracy theory iceberg. using conspiracy theorist as blanket statement is disingenuous. i myself a conspiracy theorist on geopolitic and not on new age health bullshit like this.
@@PenguinCrayon269that's scepticism to be wary of people in power
I just emailed this video to CBC Marketplace, they're an investigative journalism show here in Canada that focuses on shady business practices. Hopefully they'll look into this...
@@the1observer ah yes the “woke” dude who is actually just privileged and has access to labs instead of looking at news sites, then looks down upon people who don’t know where or how to see primary sources or can’t afford to look at studies on google scholar and the like. How smart... :|
@@the1observer wow you’re doing a lot of jumping to conclusions there. When did I say I wear a double mask? And yes, in this pandemic, I have a high risk family member so I’m staying away from people and wearing a mask. why does that invalidate my point
Right on!
@@the1observer Yikes..... kinda,,, toxic man,,, 😬
@@the1observer is rather go to Japan in ww2 than argue with you
Reminds me of an old newspaper article titled "The radium water worked fine until his jaw fell off" xD
@Niles Black Use google mate
@Niles Black Google "Radium water"
Niles Black Not really, it’s a Wall Street Journal article from 1932. A Havard dropout dissolved some uranium in water and claimed to be a doctor. He gave this uranium water besides others to a guy who had broken his arm. That guy then lost most of his jaw and died of radiation poisoning. Our chemistry teacher showed us the article a while ago.
That's because radium-226 has a much shorter half-life than thorium-232, and radium is a "bone seeker", since it's in the same group as calcium on the periodic table. Thorium-232 is just not very radioactive. It's about 8.8 million times less radioactive than radium-226 in specific activity. That's why you won't find grams, or even milligrams of radium-226 available. It has a much shorter half-life-1600 years, whereas thorium-232 has a half-life of about 14.05 billion years. A typical Ra-226 wristwatch only contains about 1 microgram of material, whereas you'd need 8.8 grams of Th-232 to get the same activity. These products are bogus, and should be labeled ”Caution: Radioactive. Contains NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials)". I would be happy if these were sold as check sources or chemicals, but putting them in these stupid new age woo-woo products is what leads to more fear to someone who doesn't know much about radioactivity or chemistry. I see the same thing with plutonium, even though americium-Am-241 specifically, is found in ionization smoke detectors, and Am-241 is about 55 times more radioactive than Pu-239, and it's just as radiotoxic, and Am-241 emits vastly more gamma rays (low-energy) compared to Pu-239, and they're both alpha emitters. Also, many older Soviet smoke detectors used Pu-239, like the RID-1 (РИД-1).
@@KarbineKyle I do understand that thorium is a lot less radioactive and that the amount in those bracelets is barely harmful on short exposure. I was merely referring to the simillarity in claimed benefit from these products when in reality using them as intended is much more harmful than helpful.
So I'm going on to Amazon and posting this link in the comments section for all of these type of products
I shall join you Conrad.
@@davidmartin1628 comrade
Chris Dikiy I hope you really are doing that. Over and over and over again.
@@rudimentaryganglia xD
The hero we need
Low band 5G uses the same frequency bands as historic TV broadcast, 3G/4G mobile and other ISM band gadgets, Mid band 5G uses frequencies around wifi and bluetooth bands, these have been around for years, these products have zero effects at these radio frequencies and are just a marketing ploy with zero benefits. High band 5G is not able to penetrate the skin at anywhere near the distance of mid band 2.4Ghz.
If people are that concerned do not carry a mobile phone, any bluetooth gadgets, switch of you wifi router and hide in a lead lined box for the rest of your life.
THANK YOU! I’m tired of hearing the bullshit people spew about 5G
"Billy! What are you doing with Mommy's Special Pen?!"
"Mommy, I'm turning green like a superhero!"
lol
May Atom bless us with his warming glow
*hair falls out*
Yes fallout the best game
@@sylviaharvey7363 Fallout is indeed the best game!
Japan: "No nuclear reactors! They're too dangerous!"
Also Japan: "Let me just buy my kid this radioactive blanket."
I wonder how popular they are in Germany....
Well, to be fair, nuclear power is not generally a great idea in earthquake zones. Also, China, not Japan, afaik
@@jerrylobster1149 Earthquakes are planned around and countered in modern designs, it wasn't the earthquake that caused Fukushima, it was the flooding, which can be accounted for in newer reactors being built.
Also yeah mostly China but Japan was also mentioned in the video and China's pretty liberal with nuclear energy so the joke wouldn't work with them.
@@todo9633 ahh, ok
@@todo9633 Also that was the Company Managers refusing to follow the engineer's advice to build it with Flooding defences but they wanted to build a copy of the US Midwest Reactors... the ones designed to survive Tornado Hits.
Thought of this video when I heard about that high school that has abnormally high rates of brain cancer (same school that was evacuated in 1997 because a teacher with a Geiger counter found a radioactive rock. Students were potentially exposed to the radiation from that rock for 8 hours every weekday for 4 years. I wonder what's causing their cancer?)
Don't high school students typically go between rooms?
Can you send me some articles about this? It sounds interesting to me
@@commscan314not everywhere
That’s Colonia High School in Woodbridge, New Jersey and they did not have abnormally high rates of brain cancer
The "negative ion meter" on the blanket is actually just an electrometer for measuring static charge, used to survey and validate electronics industry ESD defence measures...
a blanket having static electricity, isnt that shocking
@@LiEnbyI mean technically…
And now for our next "healing" product that science doesn't want you to have: Demon Core
"Bring the two halves together for 5 seconds and you will never feel pain again! Gone will be your neighbors' pesky downer attitude!"
Hahaha lol. Got my morning laugh.
Also guarantees that you won't die from any disease (if applied correctly)
Seriously alternative “healing” products meant to be consumed have and still do include literal bleach, hydrogen peroxide, turpentine (a paint stripper), and human urine.
What kind of single white mother would have a screwdriver to wedge it open tho.
I mean, thorium is my favourite element but I'm not stupid enough to strap it to my body
Thorium when I think about it. Is THE VERY BEST ELEMENT.... If learned blacksmithing, this could make a nuclear knife.
@@MaoRatto Yeah and you would get a radioactive workspace for free while you made it! Forever!
I'm glad I'm not the only one! Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (traveling wave are good too) are the FUTURE! ...just not the future for the USA because their laws are too strict to let a reactor like that ever get built...
@@SpaghettiEnterprises well, not forever
@@DJBillyQ ... Liquid... Flouride... That is not safe.
Another issue with thorium and alpha radiation...since the devices shed thorium powder, you are going to end up with internal contamination. And when it is internal, alpha is *by far* the most dangerous type of radiation. When I got a geiger counter I made sure to get one that was capable of detecting alpha. We need to be using this thorium to make pebble bed thorium reactors for safe clean energy, not exposing people to it.
Thorium is probably also just poisonous.
Yeah, the flip side of it not penning far means it's FAR more likely to be dumping all it's energy into the first thing it finds, or to just bounce around and cause despair like a psychotic pinball.
@@hedgehog3180 True, most heavy metals are also (chemically) poisonous, whether they are radioactive or not.
@@StormsparkPegasusimagine the misery of getting both heavy metal poisoning AND radiation sickness from the same material
@@StormsparkPegasusisn’t the term heavy metal used to refer to toxic metals anyways? (Things like arsenic or lead)
"make your water more wet"
That's definitely a metaphor for virility.
O2 in marketing diagram: *splits into two negative ions*
Conservation of charge: *am I a joke to you?*
That would just break physics lmao
@@Fred_the_1996 Yep, chemistry student here, it would need to release some form of energy. (I forget what type of energy specifically, I don't have my chemistry textbook with me.)
Edit: Gain, sorry. Oops! I forgot it was splitting into negative ions..
It would need to somehow gain electrons during the split.
@@syweb2 Hmmm, might be possible if there were a ton of electrons just floating about, but that's not natural conditions in Earth's atmosphere so it's irrelevant in the context of normal use.
@@nikkiofthevalley 'Trust me, I did a quick google search and essential oils can make it gain electrons and emit good health particles that treat covid'
- Susan
What scares me about this is that I can be given something like this as a gift without ever knowing it
you can always buy a geiger counter
What scares me is that thorium, or something just as concerning, could be in the flour I buy, or vitamin powders, or in anything innocuous-looking.
@@TheAechBomb Sad it may have to come to this.
@@Coaching-is3pz what are you talking about, flour producers don't handle fkn thorium lol
Doctapeppur No, he’s making a point on how deceptive every day products can be without us having a clue. Flour was just an example of a thing we wouldn’t take notice if they added something dangerous to it.
This video is awesome, I wish I'd found your channel earlier! The most terrifying part, for me, was when you showed the 'negative ion' powders for sale; when people start inhaling even tiny amounts of dust their committed effective dose goes up by many orders of magnitude.
I used to work for a company that made process control equipment for paper mills. It used a radioactive source that emitted alpha particles. It worked because the paper would stop part of the alpha particles. How much radiation it stopped was dependent on the thickness of the paper. At least a little bit of the radiation had to get through for the equipment to measure the weight of the paper. The radioactive source was sealed in an armoured scanning head well away from any of the mill workers.
Alpha particles can be stopped by a thick sheet of paper. That is why they can be used to compute the weight of a sheet of paper as it is being made. The calculated weight of the paper is dependent on how much of the alpha particle radiation gets through the paper. People (including me) were arround the scanning heads every day with no harmful effects. An Alpha particle is a helium nucleus without the electrons. It cannot get through your skin.
Noice.
Why not just measure light translucency?
@@MD-vs9ff Presumably because light penetrates the paper too easily to enable precise measurements of thickness differences which, in the case of paper, can easily be on the order of microns.
@@richardyoung5217 I suspect the scanning heads not hurting you was because they were properly shielded, not because they were inherently safe. Now if you were, for some reason, instead frequently in the way of the alpha particle beam, you wouldn't be so confident.
This is basically: "Wear a portable chernobyl on your arm and get superpowers."
*Side Effects May Include:* Schizophrenia, Permanent Blindness, Cancer, Mega-Cancer, Sudden Loss of Limbs and Skin, Getting Fried Alive Till' You're Nothing But A Big Pile Of KFC and Minor Nausea.
@@brandonvelde5774 if you wear the bracelet for 166 days you would've overdone a worker in a nuclear plant body capacity of radiation (and I mean a whole year kind if radiation). Like damm one wrist receiving the same radiation that someone's body who works whith it for 8 or more hours sounds healthy.
Yeah you're gonna be Super Paraplegic
@@lugoorstar DIY cancer-inator 2000
The superpower being the ability to sleep in a box forever
"Don't lick them". the first thing our Prof told us about the alpha samples in the lab XD.
I saw this comment right as he said that
I’m a radiation safety technician at a nuclear power plant and “don’t lick things” is my frequent go to phrase before letting people go do work and it is always meant and received as humorous… until he said it in this video and now I’m cringing.
The radioactive boy scout would have had a field day with those products
On the back of this video I actually bought one of the pendants on ebay to see how radioactive they were for myself, and sure enough it was. What I wasn't expecting however is the plastic "authenticity card" that came in its box was *also* radioactive - in fact more so than the pendant itself!
Wait, what? How did that happen?
@@NickiRusin Presumably the card is made from the same material...for authenticity?
It boggles my mind as to why they'd do it.
@@Chlorate299 Or the factory is so contaminated by thorium dust by now that everything in it is radioactive.
Same; I have a pendant that registers 1.3 uSv/h and the card actually registers 1.7 uSv/h.
Damn, that's horrifying.
The Church of the Children of the Atom would like to thank you for your contribution.
damn cultist, I have you on the receiving end of my hunting riffle!
I'm very intrigued to join your church....
I agree with the above statement...
It is a fallout 3 refrance
Lol good Fallout reference
It's the healthy glow situational over again (there was a time where people thought uranium was good for you, nicknamed it a healthy glow because they would literally glow from the products)
I'd never heard that claim about the salt lamps; everyone I know just likes the way they look.
Lol i don't have one but i want it for Astheatics
Or taste.
Yikes!
I find it insane that a quack product would actually contain anything unusual at all, like why even add the thorium powder when you could just make a plastic bracket and be done with it.
Lol negative ion generator... It literally ionizes YOU
The good ol` swicheroo
Probably stands for negative health effects, and ionizing radiation. Yummy stuff indeed.
the _real_ negative ions have to come from inside
@Joe Blow Real negative ion generators generate ozone though, which is definitely harmful for humans.
@@rdizzy1 yeah but if you're dead no more harm may befall you.
A thorium vibrator...
it seems I have finally seen it all.
Cancer speedrun
gamma gooning
I know dosimetry is super hard but I wanted to note a few things:
The detectors you use have to be calibrated to the specific isotope, usually gamma only instruments are calibrated for H*10 (Ambient dose equivalent) of Cs-137.
The mica-window instruments are usually used for measuring surface contamination and so they are usually calibrated for a single isotope and most importantly activity not dose rate.
So your doserate measurements are probably very off.
Another thing to note is that the thorium decay chain releases radioactive radon gas which decays with alpha decay. So no matter how much paper you put around that sample, radon gas will still seep out :)
I love your videos btw, keep up the good work 💜
I'm fairly certain those grey spheres aren't ceramic, but tourmaline mineral balls. I have some for my aquarium, as they slowly dissolve into the water column, increasing hardness with ions like calcium to support invertebrate shell growth. They look exactly like mine, which are a little powdery, and the tourmaline description fits exactly.
This is an excellent public service you have done with this video! Thank you for educating the public on the dangers of these products!
It's really great to see someone holding con artists & frauds accountable for their lack of real action, well worth the subscription mate, cheers!!! 👍👍
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
its a good source of thorium for us chemistry enthusiasts, DON'T BAN THEM.
Thats... A good source of thorium
@the rougemillenial where is that coil
It made me wonder if people would start using the bracelets to power nuclear plants.
@@johnbyrd7400 What???
In order to make thorium usable for a power plant you would need to bombard it with neutrons to turn Th 232 into Th 233 which can then undergo beta decay to protactinium 233 then beta decay to uranium 233.
Do you even know what it takes to create a high enough energy neutron beam to make this a viable method for energy production.
A FUCKEN BREEDER REACTOR.
;-;
99.9999999% of people when hearing geiger counter alarms: Run
Negative Ion fashion wearers: WHERE IT AT, LEMME LICK THAT SWEET NECTAR
rofl
They are like the children of atom from fallout
Do you want super mutants?! Because that's how we get super mutants
I think there are like 6-7 orders of magnitude more people that buy into such claims than you wrote. With nine nines there would only be 8 people on earth that bought it.
At school then we first saw an geiger counter many of the kids was disappointed it did not react on them breathing at it :)
Wow. This is a very valuable PSA. I hope some media pick it up.
17:03 oh my god it’s radium water all over again. Remember: everything is fun and games until someone’s jaw falls off
Yea
This is like the modern day equivalent of radioactive glow paint or asbestos.
And to think people thought WiFi was the real threat.
Atlest asbestos still has it's modern uses (despite the large amounts of PPE needed to handle it)
Or 5G
Mandrake Fernflower What uses?
On asbestos, nah. Plenty of things you can sub in, but the benefits of using asbestos (it hates being on fire) were actually quantifiable. Not saying it should ever see use again outside of extremely controlled circumstances, but it didn't increase your energy levels while killing you, it kept you off fire and killed you.
Asbestos is still a threat in Sweden. A lot of buildings from the 50s are still around with asbestos fibers in pipe insulation, vinyl flooring, heating ducts etc. Building owners are responsible for inventorying and testing for presence of asbestos but this seems to be largely ignored as it adds substantial costs. The general public seems to have forgotten this danger, even construction workers.
12:50 for comparison: This is ~10x the average yearly dose we get. Or when compared with only natural radiation (no medicine), it's ~20x the average yearly dose.
just had mine arrive today (pendant) and thank GOD i had enough common sense to say to myself "hm... I wonder how exactly does this work" and ended up finding your video in the process. Needless to say, i put it back in the packaging and sending it back for refund ASAP.
I've had pendant 3 yrs. No rubber or plastic, it's glass or crystal..however, this video is what got me to rip it off. Been suffering with skin weirdness, throat tumors and laundry list of other annoying and disconserting ailments. Thought I did my homework but apparently issue of Thorium never came to study!! So, tell your friends etc...DO NOT INVEST OR APPLY TO HUMAN BODY!!! As if our air(chems)water, earth aren't dangerous enough now just wear it!!! OMG help us!!! Well, gonna look to feeling better without the neg ion noose. Stay strong. Thanks
Literally same lol
I impulse purchased a pendant and bracelet and it just came in today. And I was too interested in how it works.. also sending it back
When you’re too smart for your downfall
You cant be very smart if you bought the thing to begin with.
I respect the fact u guys told the company about how dangerous this stuff was.
Oh My God, thank you for the video. I was SO close to starting selling one of these products on my online store, but of course, I wanted to check if the information and studies were legitimate. This video made it super easy for me to understand. Thank you so much
The real danger happens when the products are used as intended, never though I'd hear that!
I just wanted to say that I love your channel. Your channel is what you got me interested in biology and recently physics. Thanks for posting such quality videos.
5G: Doesn't give people cancer
These companies: Fine... I'll do it myself.
Yes! A cheap and legal source of a known radioactive element!
Almost makes me wanna make an isotope breeder hahaha
Finally i can make my thorium reactor and have fuel
They even give them out in small tubes! (The sex toy massage pens)
Finally someone who shared my thoughts
I absolutely need to know how to separate the thorium and silicone
@@gabriels3909 twice the radiation, half the lifespan
"Negative ion" wearables are like today's mercury pills.
MFW my chinese physician produces a thorium elixir instead of a mercury one...
@Peter Parlee-Carr I was making a history joke, as in ancient China it was quite popular in the medical business, especially as a court physician, to try manufacturing immortality-granting substances out of mercury, specifically the mineral cinnabar. This was because the medical community believed at that time that ingestion of precious substances, especially chemically durable ones (of which cinnabar was one), would extend the lifespan of the consumer. If a physician discovered the recipe for the elixir, they would gain much fame and prominence among the medical community, and old myths stated that prominent and skilled physicians would, upon their deaths, be rewarded with (cushy) medical research positions in the celestial bureaucracy of China's afterlife.
The joke plays of the fact that many of these thorium-rich wristbands are made in China and are marketed as being able to improve your lifespan. So now the Chinese physicians are making elixirs of immortality out of thorium and not mercury.
I just want to mention that pure elemental mercury is relatively safe. It’s when it forms organometallic salts that it’s dangerous.
@@jimmywinzer3474 no , Mercury "sugar" is safe to consume
@@GTAandApplechannel can you explain what you mean by mercury sugar?
“The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off”
I wonder how healthy working in a factory that produces those items might be...
And the first thing that this comment made me think of was 'Radium girls'
Well, I've been tempted for ages, but I'm getting a Geiger counter now
Just buy a cheap radio,it does the same.Only downside is it starts clicking once you grow a tumor on a tumor.
I was also tempted for ages and finally got one recently for around 100€.
When I left the family home around two decades ago I took some stuffs, including a small malachite box with mineral samples from Congo (we spent a few years in former Zaïre when I was a kid).
I lived with that stuff for one year in my student room in a drawer between my bed and at an arm reach of the desk with the pc where I spent most of my time when at home.
Then when I moved it wasn't in the room I slept anymore but still less than two meters from where I usually sat, for a few years, quite forgotten, before I finally had a basement and put it there.
The geiger counter on direct contact of the box (closed) is registering over 20µS/h (where I live, from offcial sources, the background radiation outside is around 0,11µS/h. I register around 0,17-18µS/h. in my flat).
When I had it in my single room, I could touch the small furniture it was in from my desk, were I estimate the dose between 1,5 and 3µS/h. At least the radiation is falling very quickly with distance (at least the one I was able to detect with my geiger counter, it' supposed to pick-up x-rays but I'm not convinced of it, as for the alpha particles), and when I slept in the same room it was close to my feet and not my head. Some other parts of my anatomy were... in between.
Let's say that I unknowingly spent some years as an airliner crew, and that I should definitely stop smoking.
If you are wondering, with that geiger counter I cannot tell the radiation of bananas from the background radation, nor anything else in my place, actually, including the smoke detector (from the outside of it, I prefer to leave the americium where it is).
@@19Murad77 yikes. Here's hoping I don't make that kind of discovery. Good plan on the smoking. Good luck.
makes me feel like bringing one to public places, just to see how common its in our "products"
The one he uses in the video is pretty good, I have one. I found a piece of uranium glass randomly in the house with it, which was a surprise, to say the least..
Holy crap.
I rather let fools lose their money on "healing magnets", this is just beyond wrong.
Hey a half life fan wassup
Remember radium based products? This is basically it but in the modern era.
Healing magnet bracelets really work! They'll keep metal shavings from getting into your eyes while drilling ferrous metals :p
Seriously, I have considered purchasing a couple just for when I'm drilling into door frames, normally stick a magnet on a piece of wire to my drill but that solution is clunky compared to a bracelet.
Thank goodness we have an anomalous materials specialist to help people avoid cancer
There's nothing wrong here, just don't buy these and be smart.
*sees video*
Me: How Radioactive?
*clicks video and sees scientific equipment and hears a reasonable voice*
Me: Ah, so a bit too Radioactive I presume?
5:13 I love how he casually says, 'We'll go over this detector when we look at anti matter'
Reminds me of the radium craze a century ago.
@@overclockedsanic5237 The folk selling the thorium have gotten cleverer at rebranding their stuff though.
irradiation
Ah, the good old days!
Or the Radon craze in the early 90s.
This makes me wonder if there's a Radioactive-Boyscout somewhere, building a Thorium reactor in some backyard shed.
*_h m m m m_*
104 days
of summer vacation...
shnudflaiger dahlah LMBO
I actually have one of these, and I want to make a reactor
(It's just a joke, please don't arrest me)
@JGD How's that going for you?
My mom got the bracelet with the black beads and told me it’s supposed to help me feel better and clearer, and I just knew something was up. If people understood what these products actually did these companies would be out of business lol.
Did you tell her what was wrong with it, and if you did, how did she react?
@The Cave Dweller all I had to do was point out how the bracelet was tight enough to leave black marks on her skin and I haven’t seen her use them since.
@@gabriels3909 I mean like I said above, I was unwilling to wear it after I saw that it left a big black imprint on my skin. Nothing should leave such a mark upon you’re skin after wearing it for a couple of hours.
@baconaterlover5399 I wouldn't necessarily say that. Some uncoated metal jewelry will leave marks and it's fine, keyword being "some". I've got a couple copper rings and they leave green smudges on my fingers, it's normal.
my mom got one of those salt crystal lamps. all it did was leave a coating of powder on everything surrounding it.
I saw that toothbrush the other day online. I claims you don't need toothpaste, you just need to dip it in water. I was skeptical, but i thought it might be good for travel if it works. Luckily i didn't buy it.
It's kind of scary how easy it is to buy something like this on accident.
I have that toothbrush. There's actually a battery inside it. I would say it's emitting a negative charge instead of negative ions, though.
Is it emitting a lot of fluoride particles or something? Because otherwise you definitely need toothpaste