I started getting suspicious earlier already from a clip where he advocates depleted uranium (the military's favorite tank buster and projectile material). There is nothing more that the military industrial complex wants than to DEREGULATE nuclear materials, so the military could use them more freely all over the world.
Then I found this blog post that seems to agree with my hunch.
I'm not saying this is the truth or not, but if you look at the early history of radium and radiation, you should find plenty of evidence it is indeed very harmful. The thing is, in which form? There exists a huge number of radioactive isotopes, as you can see from this Wikipedia list:
It's probably quite a complex subject. And even in the body of a human, there is a tremendous difference with regards to ingested, injected, breathed, or external, and that does not take into account that some isotopes mimic other minerals in humans, which multiplies their harm many fold. Or any talk about particle size or solubility.
For example Cesium-137 mimics potassium, and is water soluble (distributes easily in the body). Strontium-90 mimics calcium (that's how you get leukemia). Iodine-131 mimics iodine (thyroid cancer).
These are just a couple of sentences on an extremely complex subject. I think it would be quite foolish or dangerous to assume all radiation is harmless, and that it's all just a hoax. I doubt it is quite so simple.
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I started getting suspicious earlier already from a clip where he advocates depleted uranium (the military's favorite tank buster and projectile material). There is nothing more that the military industrial complex wants than to DEREGULATE nuclear materials, so the military could use them more freely all over the world.
Then I found this blog post that seems to agree with my hunch.
https://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/nuclear-news-spectrum-galen-winsor-nuclear-scare-scam/
I'm not saying this is the truth or not, but if you look at the early history of radium and radiation, you should find plenty of evidence it is indeed very harmful. The thing is, in which form? There exists a huge number of radioactive isotopes, as you can see from this Wikipedia list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radioactive_isotopes_by_half-life
It's probably quite a complex subject. And even in the body of a human, there is a tremendous difference with regards to ingested, injected, breathed, or external, and that does not take into account that some isotopes mimic other minerals in humans, which multiplies their harm many fold. Or any talk about particle size or solubility.
For example Cesium-137 mimics potassium, and is water soluble (distributes easily in the body). Strontium-90 mimics calcium (that's how you get leukemia). Iodine-131 mimics iodine (thyroid cancer).
These are just a couple of sentences on an extremely complex subject. I think it would be quite foolish or dangerous to assume all radiation is harmless, and that it's all just a hoax. I doubt it is quite so simple.
Or just ask these people of the Chernobyl Legacy:
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl
Or the people in Iraq exposed to depleted uranium. Warning, extremely graphic images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=depleted+uranium+babies+iraq&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch