Holistic treatment still means treating more than just the clinical side of health, kinda like chicken noodle soup and some extra vitamin c during a cold with cold medicine. These snake oil salesmen are ruining the original meaning of the word like old Nazis are ruining the original meaning of words. Like "woke" meant original thinking separate from the crowd gestalt, aka in a state of critical thinking and aware of current events. There is a reason to be sceptical because of scammers, but there IS real holistic medicine out there and it has worked gently on people for millennia. I suggest we call this what it is, snake oil.
@@stevenn1940 Wouldn't be the first time... Too bad, because that "whole" approach to health should be mandatory - from tests, drugs, curing, to mind, life style and care.
@@littlelouievs 15-25 CPM is safe (as indicated on the counter, it says "Normal Background") But that "safe count" is for an area, and that thing is packed with it and was meant for you to wear it. It'll start to cause some issues long term.
Lol right! Most companies would lie or put a very tiny amount of whatever they think is beneficial at the time. I think this comment went over a lot of people's head.
My father used to whip our ass when we sit too close to the crt tv because we might get cancer with the tv radiation...... now he's very proud of his "quantum" pendant and mug that he bought overseas that say it would make him healthier.
And oftentimes Filipino seafarers always get scammed by those things due to strict pre employment medical examination (for the 9months employment contract) and expensive healthcare in the Philippines
Its really not that dangerous. It puts out a contact dose of about 2 uSv per hour which really isnt much at all. Long term contact like its designed for will cause trouble though.
@@yurttgjkI seen a metal box with radioactive 3 on it while working for a shipping company I was like I ain’t touching that and some one kicked it down the belt
@@candrian7 Bro that card has 10,000+ CPM in it then let's say amazing selling those as the company is new they'll be selling a ton especially when it's on shark tank now how many times will a worker come in contact with them everyday or every other day... that's not a short amount of time
Radon causes cancer. I once lived in a house that put out a huge amount of radon from the rocks under it. I felt sick all the time. Heard about radon , had house tested-- moved. Started feelin better.
@@nekovannoxall jokes aside i was wondering if this amount of radiation could be turned into energy for your aura, like in a photon type way ? thinkin like superman type shi
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), a Scottish physicist, is credited with inventing the cloud chamber. Inspired by sightings of the Brocken spectre while working on the summit of Ben Nevis in 1894, he began to develop expansion chambers for studying cloud formation and optical phenomena in moist air.
here's a question: what the hell are customs doing, letting this stuff be imported? they should be aware of these so-called "negative ion" products and such, check these quack health amulets for radioactivity, and reject their import.
You'd think stuff going through customs is being screened for radiation in general and something higher than normal would flag some kind of warning. But maybe they're only looking for like, specifically weapons levels of radiation.
I mean, the problem is that you get things like Bananas and kitty litter giving false positives all the time. Not to mention gas lamp bags and smoke detectors and.... You know what, there are just a lot of radioactive things that are perfectly normal to ship around the world, and just checking for radiation is gonna lead to a lot of false positives. Never mind that most people can own radioactive stuff perfectly legally in the first place. There is nothing illegal about owning a radithor, just trying to sell the water to someone else.
You guys might actually be happy to know this dude did something about it. He reported these companies for how dangerous they are and amazon started cracking down on negative ion (radioactive) products
@@peterheinzo515 it certainly is illegal to sell without appropriate warning labels. and the product used as intended is easily identifiable as unacceptably unsafe.
the thing I dont get is if you're going to scam why go through the hassle of getting thorium when you could just sell plastic and perhaps a bit of iron dust
Thorium is basically usless today and it is a by product of mining for other metals historical it was used in glowing socks for gas lamps , for same optical very clear glass to make camera lenses and as fuel in breading type nuclear reactors And each use is kinda replaced or other stuff works better gas lamps have died out with electricity thorium glas has worst propertys than modern clear plastics and as fuel well there are same problems with that as well first of the breader Reactors arnt as save and using thorium in thes reactors decreases there efficiency there is also MOX(mixed oxid fuel) that cann be used in normal reactors but is even worse than pure thorium in a breader so and the last try was the liquid fuel/molten salt reactor well it works but not for long since the molten salt /angry isotope suppe is sadly very corrosive too alloys that are resistent against the high neuton flux in the reactor
i mean they weren't lying its a health product. but not a product to make someone health better. + it radiates energy as the card said. so they kinda did not lie about that lmao
I think you are confusing the term homeopathy for a generic all encompassing alternative medicine sort of thing. Homeopathy does not have anything to do with the use of oils, herbs, supplements or anything else but remedies that are carried in small sugar pills or in water. You may argue that you don’t believe that would work but in that case the product would not be dangerous. I am able to use homeopathy precisely because of this. I react to almost all medications, herbs, oils supplements and often even foods. Because of how it uses none of these things I have finally found a way that I can receive treatment and begin to heal under the care of an experienced homeopath after years of only getting worse trying everything else.
A Cloud Chamber is a device used to detect ionizing particles and to determine their trajectories. It does not show the particles themselves, but where they have been: particles form a condensation trail in the chamber which is visible as a fine mist, and this shows a particle's path through the chamber.
This card is emitting ~2.2 uSv/h. For reference, some of the less radioactive areas of chernobyl today are around 0.2-1.6. Standing close to this amulet is the same as standing on the roads surrounding reactor 4. However, for a dose with a tangible effect on cancer risk, you'd have to be around this for 4.7 years per year (impossible)
The companies that sold these should be on trial the same way the cigarette companies were. The effects of ionizing radiation on the body have been well known for decades. This isn't just gross negligence - it's attempted murder.
Alpha radiation does literally nothing to your body unless you ingest it. Like your example actually, smokers ingest radon while smoking leading to increased chances of lung cancer but if you hung out in a room with something that emits radon/alpha radiation it literally doesn’t even penetrate the outer layer of your dead skin - Your local radiological controls specialist
FFS please know what you're talking about. Most Thorium decays are alpha emitters since the fake expert claims it's TH 90 we can assume they don't know which isotope. Since they mostly alpha decay, which means like tritium and radium, the radiation is blocked by skin, clothing or a plastic cover the fake expert removed from the card in order to get a reading.
@@seniorrawrvods1553maybe not holding it for ten minutes but it being something intended to wear/keep on you all the time. it definitely is dangerous over time
My friend who is a rockhound bought all this woman's of stock thorium dioxide rocks at a farmer's market for public safety. The woman was some new age hippie health nut who was telling folks to soak these in their tea to promote balanced chakras. Like... What the actual f**k? She looked nervous when we informed her that they were radioactive. Can't imagine why...
it always mesmerizes me, that some people have enough self courage to start selling stuff and still not enough braincells to understand that putting like almost any sort of mineral/Crystal/stone into digestible liquids it a very bad idea. Or the people that sell different kinds of crystals as 🐱toy 💀💀💀 like just skip some steps and jump of the cliff. Will save them time from going through chemotherapy......
Nah, if you’ve looked into any alternative medicine type stuff, advertising “miracle cures” that are well known to be dangerous if not deadly is incredibly common
Funny how thorium by itself can't even penetrate human skin but add anything like dioxide to support it, it becomes 10 times more powerful than 1 uranium
Yea seriously, or even just a more basic metal like nickel or steel alloy. They actually put the time/money to have a radioactive metal in there and not something fake which is impressive i guess lol
Oh man... you just know there's a warehouse worker somewhere out there that sits/stands/walks around hundreds/thousands of these every day for hours and doesn't know it. Shipping companies should really be more thorough with screening for radioactive shipments.
This man could walk by one of these twice a day and still not get half the radiation exposure you get on an airplane for 18 hours at a time. Not to mention that these are all likely alphas/betas which can be screened by a few feet of air. Unless you crack one of these open and eat it you'll be fine.
He worst part is not that they were selling these to people, but that they likely used uninformed labor without any respect for osha guidlines, who likely handled pounds of thorium every day.
@@DELL.ACNT. alpha particles can't penetrate the skin. Beta and gamma particles do and they are the dangerous ones. Alpha particles are only dangerous if injected.
The crazy thing is if they were going to scam they could just put nothing into it and get away with selling just a card. Instead they put something actively toxic inside. That’s pure evil
Getting rid of radioactive rocks from mining cost a lot. Instead, why not just sell it to other people and claim it to heal you with radiation? You even can profit from it
@@-a5330not unless they agree to it beforehand. Here, if thorium dioxide's presence was advertised in the product and you bought it, the company is not liable. Especially so because the primary use of these cards is not for radioactive reasons. No existing law criminalizes this particular form of sale.
@@Saturnius that’s surprisingly not actually true. Just because a product says “this can cause cancer” doesn’t actually make it immune to being sued for such. It’s like reckless endangerment: if you’ve created a product that’s inherently unsafe, and you as the producer are unsafe in its application/sale then you’re still liable to a civil suit in the US. So, for example, if you’d sold this product in this short, then you would need to clearly say, in bold, “this product has x materials in it, which are radioactive and have been shown to cause cancer and other illnesses. It is not intended for personal use. Please follow the guide to safe storage given.” And you would need to provide some form of containment unit to keep it in (like a lead case or something), along with instructions for safe storage. Even then, if it’s marketed as a health product, you can STILL be liable for a lawsuit. The us courts aren’t the best, but there’s typically ways to punish people who are doing bad things, it just takes a lotta commitment and, sometimes, money for a lawyer
Got more ionizing radiation on his walk to deliver the package this came in than *anyone* got "dosed" by this card. Its an alpha emitter, youd quite literally have to ingest it to get any dosage. Also, this video is pretty disingenuous; for clarity, this "shockingly radioactive" card has the same radioactivity as 20 bananas. Bananas potassium are beta emitters and are actually more dangerous outside of the body lol. 😂
Where i currently live, we have to worry about radon. We get letters in the mail that say the housing agency will be by to drop a radon test off to check our house and everyones house that's nearby. They eventually had to drill a hole in the brick in the back of the house, and put a pvc pipe in it to let the air below the house escape. There's more attached to that pvc pipe but idk what it is. Some people don't realize just how dangerous radon is.
The other part is just a fan. It sucks the air from underneath the house (air pockets in the gravel, rocks, sand, etc of what the foundation was poured over) and moves it into the atmosphere. There will also be a small manometer to show that the fan is working at the intended pressure level. It's too bad more people don't know about radon gas in their homes.
If you haven't already heard the story look up "Radium Girls", and see what they did in the 1920's, it's mind-blowing what companies did to their workers, in the name of profit.
The big reason why it was so bad is that they were told to lick the brushes to make a very fine point, so of course they swallowed some. Certain varieties of radiation are relatively harmless outside of you, almost all of it will bounce off your skin, but if those get INSIDE your skin, you're in big trouble.
Yeah, when they started they didn't realize it was toxic/radioactive. When workers started getting sick they didn't make the connection and when they finally did they tried to hide it because they were in so deep. Wild story
That company is very terrible. They should get their ass sued straight to hell. Also hope that justice prevailed against those who are making those pendants and they too, may suck on a demons rooster.
I maintenance Nuclear reactors, specifically the control rods, I wish I could see some of the hotter components I work around under that vapor chamber. It bet it would be a super cool visual
You are in the group A of hazardous work, right? If im not mistaken it's an international standard A= group I, and you are allowed a maximum accumulated dose of some microZieverts. Can you elaborate what are your countries regulations on this?
@@NomadUrpagiin the US we never use sieverts. The US really only uses Rem and Rad. Each facility is different but the DOE has regulations about dose for workers. What you see here is not even close to what allowed for workers.
@@curtiscook2345 nice to know, i wanted to know the exact allowances of exposure for workers there and how long they are allowed to work there. I heard in Canada if you work in category A for 5 years you will be given a leave for another 5 years, so i thought its maybe similar in states.
@@NomadUrpagi it’s a complicated thing to answer because there’s so many different answers. There’s limits for whole body, extremities, eyes, skin, fingers, and gonads. Different doses for pregnant women and the fetus. Generally the DOE requires less than 7 REM but most nuclear facilities require 5 REM or less.
I wore that same pendant for months as it was a gift from my dad. During that time I've had massive pimples just above my chest for some reason. Guess I'll find out in a few years if I'm fucked or not.
Hey-o! A nuclear worker here. I want to help you find some peace of mind. The highest dose reading his dosimeter had on the CARD which is shown to be more radioactive than the pendant is was 2.32 micro sieverts per hour. Although it only peaked there and was less than that on every other frame it was on screen. So let's do some worst-case-scenario analysis here. Everywhere - unless otherwise noted I have made an over-estimation or rounded up. 2.32 uSv * 24 hr = 55.7 mSv/day. You say you wore it for "months" so I'll call it a year. 55.7uSv/day * 366 days (leap year) = 20,400 uSv/year or ~20.4 mSv There are two kinds of exposure limits. Deterministic - meaning you're experiencing cell death immediately and you'd already be affected. And stochastic - meaning that your chances for things like cancer has gone up. Deterministic dose limits Public 1 mSv/year Occupationally exposed workers: 20mSv/year averaged over 5 years, not to exceed 50 mSv in a single year. Stochastic dose limits: These vary by body part as some parts of your body are more sensitive than others. Eyes: Public 15 mSv Worker 150 mSv Hands, Feet and Skin Public 50mSv Workers 500mSv I'll assume you wore your pendant at the collarbone by your throat. The neck as a whole has a weighting factor of 0.16 or approximately 1/6th of your total dose to the area contributes to your Committed Effective Dose Equivalent. The lungs (most sensitive other part in the area) is 0.125 or 1/8th. So yeah. If you had worn that card in that place you'd be well over your yearly limit as a civilian, and would have to work in less radioactive areas for a few years if you were a radiation worker. HOWEVER!!! Most of the decays in the thorium chain are alpha decays. And the alpha radiation (but not the gamma radiation or the beta radiation from some of Thorium's daughter isotopes) is entirely benign IF you didn't inhale or ingest the alpha particles. So while in this worst case scenario you'd have violated limits, at worst you'd have only minorly increased cancer risks. And for reference getting a CT scan in a hospital will hit you with 10 mSv equivalent dose. So you had a year where you got 2 CT scans. Your actual case is significantly better than what I've outline here.
@@Bladeofdeath311 wow so that's equal to two ct scans? Loved the comment man, great work and very interesting. Are CT Scans dangerous? Or, are xrays dangerous?
@@DarkSpaceStudios For reference when it comes to radiation hazards from nuclear stuff the biggest issues are neutrons, inhaling or ingesting alpha particles (or alpha particle emitters) and gamma rays. Nuclear reactions = lots and lots of gamma rays and lots and lots of neutrons. Of very high energy. And a few of lesser energy. T And iodine. For specifics I won't get into, but you could probably find, iodine (gas) is a product of nuclear fission and your body absorbs it and stores it in the thyroid. Iodine then undergoes beta decay with its not-terribly-short half life and not-at-all long half-life causes lots of tissue damage to the thyroid and therefore, eventually, hormonal disruption which yields a host of other issues. For thorium, like in this short if a worker around this stuff wore a simple bandana or scarf over their face they've reduced their dose tremendously. Being sure to wash thoroughly after work before eating or drinking. Change that into a gas mask and even more is reduced. If we're talking absolutely massive amounts of Thorium the betas would be an issue though.
Seeing radiation like this in real-time makes me have a newfound respect for how terrifyingly fast the demon core went super critical in those few seconds after the screwdriver dropped…
@@Asta-Chen They are not related lol. The amount, and most importantly, the type of radiation coming off this card is extremely negligible. It wont hurt anyone ever unless you eat it and it gets stuck in your body for 10 years. This card releases the same radioactivity as 20 bananas; and thats not a joke.
@@Asta-Chen to put the scale into comparison, its like comparing getting a tiny paper cut to getting shot in the face with a desert eagle point blank. Actually thats not even accurate because the paper cut still technically caused damage. Alpha emitters quite literally can not hurt you unless you eat them; and at 2 micro sieverts (Thats 2 millionths of a seivert by the way) its a pitiful emitter at that. I dont even know how this dudes ebay geiger counter has the sensitivity to pick up 2 micro sieverts; its ludicrously low.
After using Radium in Spas due to thinking it reduces tumor development: toothpaste; hair cream; cosmetics and suppositories. That sort of ID card is not a surprise. Many clocks have small amounts of radioactive components to make the dial more visible in unique coloration.
@@mryellow6918the thing is, Ive been watching a lot of radioactive based videos and this was the first time of me ever hearing or even seeing this being done
A : Before I go out defeated I shall activate my Trap card! B : It doesn't do anything? A : For now. *laughs evilly while packing his cards and walking out of the tournament
just imagine the sweatshop people that have to manufacture these, cause ya know they can't get any manufacturers trust to include thorium in any product 💀
Thorium is found in regular dirt I'm small amounts it's the most abundant radioactive compound found naturally on the top soil of the earth's crust, Thing about it is we can power the whole world 🌎 off of thorium instead of other nuclear chemical compounds but most countries refuse to because thorium can't be used to make nuclear weapons
it is bad lol We can't make use of them yet, we don't need such speed for daily use, it's not economic enough for daily use, we don't need 5g phones yet, in most countries
and these people don't know that if 5g really was dangerous then so is a bunch of other waves and these are radio waves, tv signals and cellphone signals that aren't 5g by their logic, they would be dead before they reached adulthood
Non ionizing radiation has real negative effects on our mitachondria for instance. Look at the studies and also how every committee at the FCC that ignored or buried those studies was ran by ex telecom giants administration members and stocks owners. Oh and if you have an iphone find the health instructions in the phone and read how it tells you to keep the phone at minimum at 10 centimeters from your body or else cancer.
