Sometimes it doesn’t pay to jump on the latest scientific fad and order your life around it. In the early twentieth century, people had some nutty ideas about the benefits of radiation, partly because they thought every scientific discovery was an unqualified good:
Nuclear power has long been touted as a utopian technology, ushering in an [...]
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Radioactive Ideas
Posted in Mass Media, Superstitions on 24 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »