Alaina Urquhart

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Now, the problem, of course, was that radium was literally anything that's safe.

It was everything unsafe.

Quite the opposite.

And although it did have promising applications in medicine, because we are able to harness very unsafe chemicals.

Yeah.

When, you know, people know how to do that and make them safe, you know?

But by itself...

No, it wasn't, you know, it wasn't as a tonic or other health fad.

Like they wasn't being safe in those usages.

Medicine, sure.

You're going to figure out a way to make that safe.

Tonics, health fads, fucking all that shit, like toothpastes and shit.

No, we're not getting it right there.

And by the time World War I was in full swing, the radium plants and their dial painters were working overtime to meet growing demand for these clocks, watches, all this stuff.

Yet at the same time that these young women were inhaling and consuming small amounts of radium, Marie Curie and her husband were beginning to understand the destructive power of the element that they discovered.

Oh, man.

And it was true that radium had the ability, which is, I mean, incredible.

It has the ability to destroy tumors and other cancerous growths.