Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive (bbc.com) 80
Necklaces and accessories claiming to "protect" people from 5G mobile networks have been found to be radioactive. The BBC reports: The Dutch authority for nuclear safety and radiation protection (ANVS) issued a warning about ten products it found gave off harmful ionizing radiation. It urged people not to use the products, which could cause harm with long-term wear. [...] The products identified included an "Energy Armor" sleeping mask, bracelet and necklace. A bracelet for children, branded Magnetix Wellness, was also found to be emitting radiation.
"Don't wear it any more, put it away safely and wait for the return instructions," the ANVS said in a statement. "The sellers in the Netherlands known to the ANVS have been told that the sale is prohibited and must be stopped immediately, and that they must inform their customers about this." The ANVS has published a full list of the products it identified as radioactive on its website. Further reading: Worried About 5G's Health Effects? Don't Be
"Don't wear it any more, put it away safely and wait for the return instructions," the ANVS said in a statement. "The sellers in the Netherlands known to the ANVS have been told that the sale is prohibited and must be stopped immediately, and that they must inform their customers about this." The ANVS has published a full list of the products it identified as radioactive on its website. Further reading: Worried About 5G's Health Effects? Don't Be
Brilliant (Score:5, Funny)
Evidence that 5G comes with health risks (Score:4, Insightful)
Those bracelets are reported to be radioactive, and no one would use them if it were not for 5G. Actually, though, that is probably not precisely true. The same bracelets are probably marketed as protection against Omicron.
Re: Evidence that 5G comes with health risks (Score:3)
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Re: radioactive nose spray (Score:2, Funny)
Re: radioactive nose spray (Score:5, Insightful)
Like Ivermectin? And Hydroxychloroquine? Consider chugging a bottle of Tylenol, I hear it prevents 5G mutations and COVID.
Both of these are widely used medicines, which, while may or may not stop covid, are doubtlessly safe and proven to do no harm, [...]
Let me stop you right there. Ivermectin is proven to be harmful at the dosages required to possibly kill Covid in a petri dish.
There are no harmless medicines, it all comes down to dosage, interaction with other substances and the user having other risk factors. Medicines have to be metabolized by the body and that takes a toll, often on the liver. So eating medicines that does nothing to improve your condition only hurts your body in other ways. That is why you don't eat cocktails of medicines all the time just to be proactive. Look up the possible side effects of ANY medicine. I challenge you to find one prescription medicine that does not have any side effects listed. Any kind of medicines being administered should be done only after careful consideration by informed and honest professionals (ie not those online "doctors" that prescribes Ivermectin for anyone calling them).
Stop spreading stupid lies like this and pretend that you are some kind of medical professional. You are not.
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Like Ivermectin? And Hydroxychloroquine? Consider chugging a bottle of Tylenol, I hear it prevents 5G mutations and COVID.
Both of these are widely used medicines, which, while may or may not stop covid, are doubtlessly safe and proven to do no harm, [...]
Let me stop you right there. Ivermectin is proven to be harmful at the dosages required to possibly kill Covid in a petri dish.
There are no harmless medicines, it all comes down to dosage, interaction with other substances and the user having other risk factors. Medicines have to be metabolized by the body and that takes a toll, often on the liver. So eating medicines that does nothing to improve your condition only hurts your body in other ways. That is why you don't eat cocktails of medicines all the time just to be proactive. Look up the possible side effects of ANY medicine. I challenge you to find one prescription medicine that does not have any side effects listed. Any kind of medicines being administered should be done only after careful consideration by informed and honest professionals (ie not those online "doctors" that prescribes Ivermectin for anyone calling them).
Stop spreading stupid lies like this and pretend that you are some kind of medical professional. You are not.
Cool. Then make professional doctors prescribe them upon patient's request, in doses known to be safe, and under control. Maybe then you wouldn't get desperate people rushing to buy horse paste, self-medicating and inevitably overdosing, as that's the only way they can get something they think might save their lives. /p>
So the patient is better educated than the medical professional they are consulting? Why should a medical professional be required to prescribe whatever the patient wants, even if it goes against all tried and tested science, just because the patient is a f**king moron who read some bogus claims on the intertubes.
And for your information, the doctor is doing exactly what you want, prescribing the medicine in the safe dose for the required treatment: ZERO.
And you know very well it will work, because that's exactly the argument you fcking hypocrites have been making about legalizing drugs. "My body my choice, I can put any substance in it I want". Indeed. But only as long as "the substance" is an addictive psychoactive poison.
I don't know who you are talking about, but just beca
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Like Ivermectin? And Hydroxychloroquine? Consider chugging a bottle of Tylenol, I hear it prevents 5G mutations and COVID.
Both of these are widely used medicines, which, while may or may not stop covid, are doubtlessly safe and proven to do no harm, [...]
Let me stop you right there. Ivermectin is proven to be harmful at the dosages required to possibly kill Covid in a petri dish.
There are no harmless medicines, it all comes down to dosage, interaction with other substances and the user having other risk factors. Medicines have to be metabolized by the body and that takes a toll, often on the liver. So eating medicines that does nothing to improve your condition only hurts your body in other ways. That is why you don't eat cocktails of medicines all the time just to be proactive. Look up the possible side effects of ANY medicine. I challenge you to find one prescription medicine that does not have any side effects listed. Any kind of medicines being administered should be done only after careful consideration by informed and honest professionals (ie not those online "doctors" that prescribes Ivermectin for anyone calling them).
Stop spreading stupid lies like this and pretend that you are some kind of medical professional. You are not.
Cool. Then make professional doctors prescribe them upon patient's request, in doses known to be safe, and under control. Maybe then you wouldn't get desperate people rushing to buy horse paste, self-medicating and inevitably overdosing, as that's the only way they can get something they think might save their lives. /p>
So the patient is better educated than the medical professional they are consulting? Why should a medical professional be required to prescribe whatever the patient wants, even if it goes against all tried and tested science, just because the patient is a f**king moron who read some bogus claims on the intertubes.
Because the substance is known to be safe in standard dosages, so while there is no scientific basis for prescribing it, there also is no scientific basis for refusing if requested?
I see that your reading comprehension is lacking severely. Let me spell it out for you in simple english so even you can understand: There are no "safe" drugs. The only "safety" comes from dosage low enough to kill the stuff that wants to kill you, before it kills you, but not enough of the drug so that the drug kills you. That is, taking the drug and the risks that comes with it is preferable to the alternative. The drug is the lesser evil. If the drug is known to not help with the condition, NOT taking th
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Wow, your post is a textbook example of reflection. Every single think you accuse others of are faults you yourself show. Kudos to achieving reflection mastery.
Let me stop you right there. Ivermectin is proven to be harmful at the dosages required to possibly kill Covid in a petri dish.
Let me stop you right there. Ivermectin works the same way as Pfizers Paxlovid treatment by inhibiting Coronavirus viral replication (inhibiting 3CL protease) not by "killing covid".
https://www.nature.com/article... [nature.com]
Ivermectin has been shown to work against Covid to some degree in vitro at high dosages (high enough to be considered ivermectin poisoning [nih.gov]). Do you know what "in vitro" means?
No one is denying that Ivermectin has some effect, but the issue is whether it has a desired effect without harming the patients. And no research published up until today has
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I have a scientific background and have studied scientific methodology but have a hard time verifying the validity of much of this research since they are not in my field of expertise.
So then why are you commenting about things you do not understand?
Good try at extracting one sentence from my post and trying to make something from it. It was in response of your "do you own homework" when most people that have no experience with scientific methodology have almost no chance of "doing their homework" in a meaningful way. I would say that I know more about reading scientific papers than the average person, which is an easy claim to do since I read academic papers regularly and have done so during my education and most people have never even read the abstra
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Radioactivity is proven to kill viruses and bacteria. The product is guaranteed or your money back.
Explanation (Score:5, Funny)
It is from all the 5G that it absorbed. Like a dirty air filter. If anything it shows how big a problem 5G is. Hey it makes Dunning-Kruger level sense. Just like idiots eating plant based poisons as nutritional supplements.
Re: Explanation (Score:1)
I heard from a well known source (A PRESIDENT!) that bleach can stop COVID.
(Do not take advice, just meant for humor. 45th was an idiot, as well the idiots that voted him in power for a terrifying four years.)
Double plus AWESOME (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently, stupidity is a self-correcting problem.
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Until the stupid is in position to push the button on a nuclear missile, or is put in charge of bio lab... Well, I guess you could say it will be terminally self-correcting then, but it would sucks to be the others.
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Never attribute to stupidity that which could be attributed to malice.
This is just too perfect to be an accident.
What was the point? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What was the point? (Score:4, Funny)
...because the necklace maker has a side business of disposing radioactive materials?
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Maybe the people selling it believed their own marketing material? Those kinds of people make the best salesmen.
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If you're going to scam someone by selling them a leopard repelling rock, why go to the bother of making it also radioactive? Wouldn't that just cost more money than something inert?
My bet is on: if they subjected a standard banana to this "radioactivity" test, it wouldn't pass it either.
Yes, granite is slightly more radioactive than background, no there is no reason to go monkeyshit insane over this.
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blahabi, why did you decide suddenly become the apologists for scam artists? Are someone paying you to downplay this?
Or are you perhaps one of the scumbags that try to sell fake cures to gullible people?
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blahabi, why did you decide suddenly become the apologists for scam artists? Are someone paying you to downplay this?
Or are you perhaps one of the scumbags that try to sell fake cures to gullible people?
Yes, I admit, you exposed me. I'm a part of a global conspiracy designed to take over the world. Our sinister, insidious plan is to first make people stop believing that radiation given off by a small piece of a volcanic rock is going to kill them, then ???, then profit. And world domination of course. And we would have gotten away with it, were it not for you meddling kids. Or something.
Now go have a cookie, hero.
Re: What was the point? (Score:2)
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The key word in the article is 'ionising.' Find out what that means before soiling yourself any further on a public forum.
Here's the link you might want to read before you embarrass yourself further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] . Yes, bananas do emit ionising radiation.
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...however, in practice, this dose is not cumulative, as the potassium in foods is excreted in urine to maintain homeostasis. The BED is only meant as an educational exercise and is not a formally adopted dose measurement.
TFA doesn't mention *how* radioactive the jewellery is but apparently enough to raise concerns from the regulatory authorities. Sufficient exposure to ionising radiation over time is likely to cause harm, e.g. cancer, which is why they've taken action.
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There are all sorts of radioactive snake oil devices on the market. I'm not sure how it started, maybe someone noticed that they could make a Geiger counter click to "prove" the thing worked.
Who came up with eating tiger penis for virility? Did they have a warehouse full of surplus tiger penises?
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If you're going to scam someone by selling them a leopard repelling rock, why go to the bother of making it also radioactive? Wouldn't that just cost more money than something inert?
Because this isn't a scam. It's a false flag operation to rid the world of stupid people, or at the very least make them unable to reproduce.
Interesting (Score:2)
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That's plainly wrong. There are plenty of humans around but I have seen no sign of intelligence yet.
Re: Interesting (Score:2)
But exactly how radioactive? Perspective here. (Score:4, Insightful)
The article has no numbers I could find but here's a quote from the version Google Translate provided:
"The amount of measured radiation from this is low. This means that the risk of damage to health is small. However, long-term health damage cannot be completely ruled out if these products are worn continuously and for a long time. "
Maybe as much as a banana ;) (Score:3)
Yes, a banana is 'quite' radioactive, as it granite - without numbers this is about as bad as the products themselves (which are also snake oil of course)
Re:Maybe as much as a banana ;) (Score:4, Insightful)
That's the perspective.
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I'm pretty sure the Dutch authority for nuclear safety knows how much radiation a banana and granite gives off. That's the perspective.
I'm pretty sure that there is a law of physics preventing green idiots subscribing to "no radiation is safe" nonsense from working their way into various regulatory bodies and agencies where they will be in perfect position to spread their ideology and put an obstacle to any development of nuclear technology. Yup, totally unpossible, even in the current leftist craze that seems to have swallowed most of Europe.
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And suddenly blahabi became the conspiracy theorist claiming that "green idiots are taking over regulatory agencies to spread their ideology as a part of a leftist agenda" (after a crusade of downplaying the dangers of radioactive amulets).
That is quite a claim. Or we could just go with Occam's razor and say that you are an idiot trying to spread your delusions. That requires fewer assumptions.
Quit trolling these forums.
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And the concern is for prolonged contact. That's the perspective, and they haven't said anything different or incongruent with low, but concerning levels..
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I have no idea what standard the Dutch use, but its possible its extremely low. (or not - not making any claim either way).
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Not long ago, a few people discovered that a whole class of "negative ion bracelets" and other related products on Amazon actually contain radioactive material in casing that is very easy to damage. In some cases, just grabbing the product the wrong way would break tiny capsules containing radioactive powder, which, when inhaled, pose a much greater health threat than just wearing a faintly radioactive bracelet.
Googling "negative ion bracelet danger" reveals some of the initial reporting about this.
Well of course it is (Score:1)
I don't know why this is a surprise - everyone knows 5G is radiation too, and everyone knows you fight fire with fire.
wish I thought of this (Score:2)
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The Deluxe model glows in the dark too
Beta decay? (Score:4, Interesting)
This sounded unlikely so I looked up the mask on eBay:
> Only Mother Nature can create negative ions;
> however, by capturing volcanic ash and remnants
> from tourmaline, Energy Armor is able to deliver
> a very high count of negative ions in our products.
Beta decay would be an efficient way to generate ions on a continual basis!
I wonder if they're using coal plant smokestack scrubber residue for their 'volcanic ash' - there's nasty radioactive stuff in there.
This is quite a tax for not paying attention in school.
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Many of these so-called "negative energy" products contain radioactive thorium [youtube.com] in them. Worse then pure fraud.
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Many of these so-called "negative energy" products contain radioactive thorium [youtube.com] in them. Worse then pure fraud.
So do the walls of any granite building. You point being?
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Many of these so-called "negative energy" products contain radioactive thorium [youtube.com] in them.
Negative ion? Thorium emits alpha particles. I've worn a thorium bracelet, and I'm positive!
More thorium dioxide? (Score:2)
I'm going to take a wild guess and say this is more thorium dioxide shenanigans.
Relevant information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
https://hackaday.com/2020/02/2... [hackaday.com]
I don't know the physics (Score:2)
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You just need enough to significantly ionize the air for a few meters around you.
This would have the undesirable side effect of instantly killing the wearer, and providing a lethal dose to anyone withing hundreds of meters. But it would stop the 5G.
More seriously, ionizing radiation is really not related to microwave "radiation" they are completely different.The only way ionizing radiation will shiel
Hmm... (Score:2)
Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive
I've heard [slashdot.org] the Airlines are worried about 5G, so I wonder how they feel about these things. Maybe they can use them to neutralize everything... :-)
Stupid, ignorant people (Score:3)
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Because they are trying to defend themselves against a non-existent IONIZING RADIATION threat :D
Which makes it soooo ironic.
Touche (Score:3)
Necklaces and accessories claiming to "protect" people from 5G mobile networks have been found to be radioactive.
The only way to fight that kind of stupid is with better stupid.
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Offer them plutonium pills to help the body fend off the 5G.problem solved
Just return ... (Score:2)
everything is radioactive. Dosis and Q factor? (Score:2)
Well, at least it does _something_ (Score:2)
So not a complete rip-off, right?
So? (Score:2)
"ten products it found gave off harmful ionizing radiation. It urged people not to use the products, which could cause harm with long-term wear."
Think of it as evolution in action.
What THEY want you believe (Score:2)
5G proponents are obviously running scared, and spreading malicious rumors about anti 5G devices being radioactive so they'll stop being used to protect the vulnerable population. They'll stop at nothing! /s
Ooops (Score:1)
"told tha they must stop"... seriously? (Score:2)
I know it's fun to laugh at the conspiracy nuts, but talk about burying the lead! Are we so far gone here that businesses selling radioactive items are just told to stop, with like, an angry letter?
I just don't get it.
Public Service (Score:1)
Anyone stupid enough to think they need protection from 5G radiation deserve to die through radiation poisoning.
Never heard of the ANVS before... (Score:2)