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[*] posted on 15-1-2014 at 11:44


I think the spirit of the OP was in the nature of a public warning. Might be a good source for material to set up a cloud chamber.
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[*] posted on 15-1-2014 at 12:40


I'm sure as hell not wasting money on one of these, but I'd be more than happy to test one for special (non-existent) radioactive and electrical properties.

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[*] posted on 15-1-2014 at 15:08


Ah, my post was to open dialog and speculation on what radioactive elements they may contain, I could care less for their medical value (beyond its harmful effect)!
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[*] posted on 15-1-2014 at 15:08


If anyone can confirm there's a radioactive brand I'm getting one just for my future nostalgia's sake.

The "negative ion" thing had me cracking up. It's not as if they're uncommon. I hope those things don't catch on around here as I know a couple people who would buy into it and then I'd be morally obligated to throw table salt at them.

...are "positive ions" supposed to be bad, here?
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[*] posted on 15-1-2014 at 15:11


Quote: Originally posted by Wizzard  
Ah, my post was to open dialog and speculation on what radioactive elements they may contain, I could care less for their medical value (beyond its harmful effect)!


I doubt they contain anything radioactive. Sections of the AltMed crowd use "negative ions" in the same way as "toxins" or "vibrations"- a sciency sounding word that will convince people to buy their stuff, but they have no intention of actually making their product correspond to the literal meaning of their descriptions.




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[*] posted on 15-1-2014 at 16:00


The video I linked was a man with a dosimeter measuring 3.8usv/hr.
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[*] posted on 15-1-2014 at 16:12


It's probably mostly alpha radiation and probably effectively harmless, but the allegations of radioactivity are pretty widespread with not much if any attempt to refute them. A lot of the "negative ion bracelet" companies out there even reference it, usually to attack their competitors. But I can't find any brands being definitively pinned down, just a couple saying "we don't use that awful cheap Chinese monazite stuff, look at us!"

They mostly carefully skirt around the issue of whether they're using radioactive materials themselves.
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[*] posted on 15-1-2014 at 16:26


Quote: Originally posted by Wizzard  
The video I linked was a man with a dosimeter measuring 3.8usv/hr.


That link didn't work for me.




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[*] posted on 15-1-2014 at 16:31


It didn't work for me earlier, either. It appears to be working now, though.



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[*] posted on 21-1-2014 at 16:00


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKj3BoFxNtg
Has anyone else heard about this cause' I just stuumbled upon it and am facepalming currently
Also there is somthing called MMS which is NaClO2 apparently and people a drinking it!
Human stupidity continues to astound me.




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[*] posted on 22-1-2014 at 03:41


Quote: Originally posted by bismuthate  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKj3BoFxNtg
Has anyone else heard about this cause' I just stuumbled upon it and am facepalming currently
Also there is somthing called MMS which is NaClO2 apparently and people a drinking it!
Human stupidity continues to astound me.


Madness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mineral_Supplement

They charge big bucks for bottles of bleach. If I were evil and had no fear of judgement I could have been bottling Love Canal runoff. Would likely have been safer to consume than this stuff they are pushing now. CDS-MMS, they bubble Chlorine Dioxide through a 28 percent (their words) solution of Sodium Chlorite calling it 'activated MMS' or CDS-MMS. Then they sell 8 ounce bottles for roughly $12 each which you are supposed to drink. Myself, I don't drink toxic waste if avoidable, and prefer my bottles of bleach to be labeled Clorox.



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[*] posted on 23-1-2014 at 08:42
Kerri Rivera is Evil!


<a href="http://mmsautism.org/" target="_blank">This filth</a> <img src="../scipics/_ext.png" /> makes me both profoundly sad&mdash;as someone diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder&mdash;and furious&mdash;as a scientifically literate, critically thinking skeptic. This <del>woman</del> cunt advocates systematically poisoning children for her own personal financial gain (book sales). She preys on the uneducated and ignorant, and endangers the lives of innocent children.

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Anyone up for some slander, character assassination, etc? <a href="http://memegenerator.net/Bishop-Kerri-Rivera" target="_blank">Try this.</a> <img src="../scipics/_ext.png" />

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[*] posted on 23-1-2014 at 15:56


(From Wikipedia) "At gas phase concentrations greater than 30% volume in air at STP (more correctly: at partial pressures above 10 kPa), ClO2 may explosively decompose into chlorine and oxygen." Boy, that puts a big, flaming, hole in her "science."

This is worse than the antivax controversy. The ironic thing? Chlorine dioxide destroys the nervous system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8 This is absolutely ridiculous. People think sprinkler rainbows are caused by water fluoridation. This lady made me feel so smart, as evidenced by the description - and gave me a VERY bad case of headdesk.

[Edited on 24-1-2014 by Brain&Force]




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[*] posted on 23-1-2014 at 16:16


Somebody who's finding people who they deem "unfit for society" and poisoning them Hmmm... acomparison to hitler would be too easy.;)
I say that there is no need of "curing" especialy not with bleach.
Also would it be legal if I gassed her house with ClO2 and claimed I was curing her when she ends up dead:D?




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[*] posted on 23-1-2014 at 16:23


Please don't joke about homicide.

What I find most disillusioning about the whole matter is that she's being celebrated for what is essentially child abuse. Surely Mexico has laws protecting children.

[edit] And this boils my blood (emphasis added):<a href="http://mmsautism.org/consultation-with-kerri-rivera" target="_blank">
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2. Go to paypal.com and log in. If you do not have an account, follow the instructions to create one. Click on the SEND MONEY tab In the To field, put Kerri’s business paypal Address which is: pieapie@prodigy.net.mx In the Amount, put <em>100 and select USD</em> from the drop down Select “I’m paying for goods or services” <img src="../scipics/_ext.png"
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[*] posted on 1-2-2014 at 19:41


I came across this nonsense while searching for information on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Group" target="_blank">Madison formation</a> <img src="../scipics/_wiki.png" /> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramide_orogeny" target="_blank">Laramide orogeny</a> <img src="../scipics/_wiki.png" />:
<a href="http://www.perigeezero.org/" target="_blank">Perigee: Zero &mdash; Unified Theory of Cultural Heritage and Geological History</a> <img src="../scipics/_ext.png" />




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[*] posted on 3-2-2014 at 08:11


Quote: Originally posted by Etaoin Shrdlu  
It's probably mostly alpha radiation and probably effectively harmless, but the allegations of radioactivity are pretty widespread with not much if any attempt to refute them.


Wouldn't the alpha particles attenuate before exiting the silicone material? Then it would make them a 'miracle personal helium generator capable of curing _____ and fixing your marriage'.

On the flip side, during a radioactive material training course we were shown a negative correlation with cancer rates for very long term, low dose radiation. I've only seen it twice and I can't cite anything. Anyone know what I'm talking about that can cite something for me?

And a parting shot, science and experimentalism can only prove/disprove what is within their realm. Things that exist outside of that realm can only be conjectured, but not proved/disproved by science as it stands. The state of science has to progress before conjecture can be removed. In a nutshell, you must know and understand the limits of your experimental design and knowledge before you dismiss or accept an idea/hypothesis.
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[*] posted on 3-2-2014 at 11:16


Quote: Originally posted by roXefeller  
On the flip side, during a radioactive material training course we were shown a negative correlation with cancer rates for very long term, low dose radiation. I've only seen it twice and I can't cite anything. Anyone know what I'm talking about that can cite something for me?

Look up radiation hormesis if you're curious. I find the idea fascinating but haven't done any real study into it.
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[*] posted on 3-2-2014 at 11:33


Quote: Originally posted by roXefeller  
On the flip side, during a radioactive material training course we were shown a negative correlation with cancer rates for very long term, low dose radiation. I've only seen it twice and I can't cite anything. Anyone know what I'm talking about that can cite something for me?
I have heard of several studies that seemed to show this effect. I'll see if I can find them.



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[*] posted on 3-2-2014 at 14:45


Are you all speaking of hormesis?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis



Etaoin Shrdlu beat me to it, I see. Sorry.


[Edited on 3-2-2014 by Bot0nist]




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[*] posted on 3-2-2014 at 19:18


Quote: Originally posted by bfesser  
<a href="http://mmsautism.org/" target="_blank">This filth</a> <img src="../scipics/_ext.png" /> makes me both profoundly sad&mdash;as someone diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder&mdash;and furious&mdash;as a scientifically literate, critically thinking skeptic. This <del>woman</del> cunt advocates systematically poisoning children for her own personal financial gain (book sales). She preys on the uneducated and ignorant, and endangers the lives of innocent children.


What a sickening and disgusting individual. Terrifying that people can get away with horrible forms of pseudoscience like this, and preying/indirectly torturing innocent autistic children. Truly horrifying.

I have a co-worker who was recently diagnosed with cancer, and some schmuck sold him a miracle fruit "Guanabana" that the seller claimed was 10,000 times more potent than chemo. What a load of rubbish. The scary part is that some people would reject true cancer therapy, such as chemo and radiation, and instead choose this magic fruit, or some other BS miracle cure. Don't even get me started on Homeopathy or the anti-vaccine crowd. It saddens me to see how many people are deciding to go to this unproven, potentially dangerous hogwash, while rejecting known and proven modern medicine.
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[*] posted on 4-2-2014 at 04:49


Yea BobD, that antivaccination and antimedicine stuff really really bothers me. I could go on for days about it but I'll try not to think about it.


Here's another funny one I recently heard about.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2014/01/31/burning-snow-vide...

People think that all the snow in the USA this winter is a conspiracy. ideas ranging from nanobots to polymers being dumped everywhere. Mostly because people don't understand a few topics, incomplete combustion, phase changes, or how to conduct a simple experiment. If you meet anyone who thinks the snow is made up of nanobots because the soot from their lighters turns it black tell them to hold their lighter side-ways (so that the incomplete combustion byproducts don't get trapped on the surface of the snow), or ask them to hold their lighter underneath a glass dish for the same duration of time and ask if there are nanobots in the glass, or let it melt at room temperature.

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[*] posted on 4-2-2014 at 05:18


smaerd has me all bummed out now. I was positive if I built a snowman and shouted 'nanobots electrify' something cool would happen. Now all it's going to do is melt when spring arrives.




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[*] posted on 4-2-2014 at 06:03


<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_ray" target="_blank">Violet ray</a> <img src="../scipics/_wiki.png" /><a href="http://www.quantumbalancing.com/violet_ray" target="_blank">
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Violet Ray Technology energizes the body by way of a very short exposure using Noble gas tubes to transfer antioxidant electrons into the body tissues which studies show directly neutralize free radicals. <img src="../scipics/_ext.png" />
</a>[edit] I clicked on this video, thinking that it would be a scientific discussion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orogeny" target="_blank">orogenesis</a> <img src="../scipics/_wiki.png" />, not the goddamn biblical genesis:

<a href="http://youtu.be/kT6RxtWDeh0" target="_blank">Orogeny - The Formation Of Mountains</a> <img src="../scipics/_yt.png" />

You can imagine my disappointment and anger.

[edit] I don't even...

<a href="http://www.rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm" target="_blank">The Neanderthal theory</a> <img src="../scipics/_ext.png" />

[edit] <a href="http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8225/do-cacti-absorb-harmful-radiation-emitted-by-computers" target="_blank">Do cacti absorb harmful radiation emitted by computers?</a> <img src="../scipics/_ext.png" /> (StackExchange Skeptics)

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[*] posted on 8-2-2014 at 10:18


The structure of water is altered by emotions.

I'd never have heard of this ridiculousness except I just ran into someone worried they were damaging their fish by being near the tank while upset.
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