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Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive (bbc.com) 80

Posted by BeauHD from the you-can't-make-this-shit-up dept.
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
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  • Brilliant (Score:5, Funny)

    by LeeLynx ( 6219816 ) on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:46PM (#62092607)
    Now they can sell an add-on crystal bracelet to protect from the necklace radiation.

  • Explanation (Score:5, Funny)

    by backslashdot ( 95548 ) on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:56PM (#62092631)

    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.

    • 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)

    by Local ID10T ( 790134 ) <ID10T.L.USER@gmail.com> on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:57PM (#62092633) Homepage

    Apparently, stupidity is a self-correcting problem.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      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.

    • 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)

    by imidan ( 559239 ) on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:59PM (#62092635)
    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?

    • Re:What was the point? (Score:4, Funny)

      by slashdot_commentator ( 444053 ) on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:48PM (#62092743) Journal

      ...because the necklace maker has a side business of disposing radioactive materials?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by mydn ( 195771 )
      It's a great way to dispose of your nuclear waste.
    • Perhaps it was an experiment in eugenics.

    • Maybe the people selling it believed their own marketing material? Those kinds of people make the best salesmen.

    • Re: (Score:1, Troll)

      by blahabl ( 7651114 )

      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.

      • 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?

        • 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.

      • The key word in the article is 'ionising.' Find out what that means before soiling yourself any further on a public forum.

        • 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.

          • ...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.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      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?

    • 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.

  • Despite our best efforts to protect everyone clearly, there still are evolutionary pressures favouring intelligence.

  • But exactly how radioactive? Perspective here. (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Beryllium Sphere(tm) ( 193358 ) on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:06PM (#62092649) Journal

    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. "

    • 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)

        by The Evil Atheist ( 2484676 ) on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:16PM (#62092821)
        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 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.

          • 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.

          • You are boring.
    • The SUMMARY states that the warning comes from the Dutch authority for nuclear safety and radiation protection. If THEY'RE concerned, it means the numbers are high enough to warrant the warning.

      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..
      • It depends, Some regulations use "detectable" radiation as a standard and we are really good at detecting radiation. I know anything leaving our accelerator facility (in the US) needs to be scanned and the threshold is very far below anything that would be hazardous. (not a bad policy, since the cost of measuring to that level is very small)

        I have no idea what standard the Dutch use, but its possible its extremely low. (or not - not making any claim either way).

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by fermion ( 181285 )
      The book Radium Girls details the women who painted glow in the dark watch dials. In the US, unlike other nations, the women actual licked the brushes to point them, so they invested the radium. This was early 20th century. Radioactive consumer products were common, such as Fiesta Ware. If these products are intact they are generally safe. However these products do pose an unnecessary risk.

    • 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.

  • I don't know why this is a surprise - everyone knows 5G is radiation too, and everyone knows you fight fire with fire.

  • Fools and their money. I'd say a price of $85 seems fair. I mean, if you want your fears allayed you don't want something cheap. Maybe $150 for a Deluxe model.

  • Beta decay? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by bill_mcgonigle ( 4333 ) * on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:15PM (#62092667) Homepage Journal

    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.

  • 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]

  • But I suppose if it's radioactive enough maybe it'll interfere. Reminds me of homeopathy. Where if there's actually any active ingredient in your "drug" it can kill you. Heck a bunch of kids were killed because their parents bought a homeopathic infant teething product and had poison in it because they hadn't diluted it enough to not have anything in it but water
    • It is true that a sufficiently radioactive object will block 5G and other forms of wireless energy.

      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

  • 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)

    by OneHundredAndTen ( 1523865 ) on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:58PM (#62092773)
    They are irradiating themselves with ionizing radiation to defend themselves against a nonexistent threat. As a species, we are not more stupid because we don't practice at it.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by splutty ( 43475 )

      Because they are trying to defend themselves against a non-existent IONIZING RADIATION threat :D

      Which makes it soooo ironic.

  • Touche (Score:3)

    by Kernel Kurtz ( 182424 ) on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:19PM (#62092945)

    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.

  • ... your radioactive necklace to the manufacturer. They'll throw them in a big pile in the corner of their warehouse.

  • A lot of stuff do ionizing radiation. It would have been nice, you know, news for nerd and that, to know what type of decay, or heck what type of radio elements it is, or the amount of Becquerel....

  • So not a complete rip-off, right?

  • "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.

  • 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

  • Still now we can sell them iodine.
  • Selling radioactive stuff... I had visions of doors being kicked in, property seized, people jailed.

    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.

  • Anyone stupid enough to think they need protection from 5G radiation deserve to die through radiation poisoning.

  • When you read Latin, you're used to seeing the letter V as just another way of writing U. I'm guessing whoever came up with ANVS as the acronym for Autoriteit Nucleaire Veiligheid en Stralingsbescherming doesn't read Latin much.

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