The Importance of Researching Health Benefits
From the April 1908 issue of Scientific American:
In connection with the Austrian governmental establishment for the preparation of uranium products, there has been built in Joachimsthal, Bohemia, a laboratory for working up radio-active substances found in the tailings and by-products of the uranium minerals. There will also be erected a bathing establshment, where the radio-active mine water will be used for healing purposes.
People purposely bathing in radio-active water. Really stupid, huh?
Now, how many over-the-counter "dietary supplements" do you take? You know, the ones what don't have to be regulated by the FDA, that can make any claims they want without testing for side-effects, and are made by corporations that can be disolved much faster than anyone can sue them?
Hey, you feeling okay? You look a little green.
Comments
sorry, just flashed back to the arguments my students used to give me on why marijuana is OK to smoke.
Did you tell them that hemlock is natural, too?
Niiiiiice.
As an undergrad I heard about lots of people trying to make "homemade" root beer with birch bark. Glad I hated the taste of root beer, because a lot of people made themselves very very sick when they used too much of the tree's gifts.