Alaina Urquhart

That's where we get radiation.

Like, that's...

Of course, we look at it today and we say like, where would we be?

Right.

You know, but the more they worked with it, the more they began to recognize that its power to do that was indiscriminate.

It was just as likely to destroy healthy cells as it was to destroy unhealthy.

So it's like, this is for you.

That's not what we're looking for.

We just need to harness it the correct way and we have not.

And it's like, now the whole world is just like eating this shit up.

So it wasn't just the Curies who knew it either.

The founder of U.S.

radium, Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sashaki, had also become very, very familiar with the destructive power of radium.

How familiar?

Yeah.

According to author Kate Moore, who we will cite the sources in the notes, of course, early in the company's history, radium had actually gotten into Von Shishaki's left index finger.

And she said, quote, when he realized he hacked the tip of it off, saying it now looked as though an animal had groped, had gnawed it.

what this was because according to timothy jorgensen radium behave behaves very much like calcium because the body is accustomed to using calcium to build bone it will recognize radium as a kind of calcium and so it will absorb the radioactive material into your bone and then it will just begin to decay your bone

What the fuck?

Because it mistakes it for calcium.