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submitted 1 week ago by letme_meowmeow to c/[email protected]

People from the past believe radioactive element can fix your health.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

correlation ≠ causation

It is amazing how many people fail at this basal logic even in the present era. There are entire political parties that exist in this cognitive void. Perhaps this radical enlightenment was an attempt by evolution to remedy humanity's limiting cognitive orbits

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They just straight up lie. Law are pretty lax back then. You can have patent medicine and say whatever your medicine can do. You know, snake oil, and similar stuff like that.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

What a fascinating news article. Hey, here’s fun: the same kind of marketers, advertisers and journalists who who placed this ad now direct most of the world! Shame about it dying though. That’s tough.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Did they just straight up falsify these results? I thought low RBC count was a common side effect of radiation therapy for cancer. Although I have no idea if radium emits the same type of radiation as radiation therapy.

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