I’m becoming … radioactive!
It is a well-known fact that the adverse health effects of radioactivity were not well-known until the 1930’s, which led to the deaths of a number of scientists who pioneered radiation research. However, I did not realize that in the 1920’s radiation was actually considered good for your health. It seems incredible, from the modern perspective, that so many people would ingest and/or cover themselves with radon, radium, and uranium, without anyone noticing the symptoms of radiation sickness or the increased incidence of cancer. Which leads one directly to the thought: how well-tested are modern healthcare fads — diets, supplements, and the like? If everyone knows that eating X is good for your health, how much evidence to the contrary are they willing to subconsciously overlook?
On that note: bottle that is designed to add radon gas to its contents reminds me of one of my relatives’ habit of putting certain types flint rocks in her drinking water — flintless water, she claims, “is dead” and not fit for drinking.