What do you think about a device that can cure cancer, relieve arthritis and even irradiate your baby’s milk? Interesting, right? Well, what if we added that this miracle device can do all of these things with the power of radioactive gas? Selling!
Sorry, but if it didn’t pique your interest or raise any doubts, Popular Science Sixty years ago, you would have been called “hopelessly gullible.” In our latest video, we take a closer look at the quack medical devices of the early to mid-20th century that claimed to be medical breakthroughs but were actually little more than gaudy, expensive scams.
The Atomotrone looks like a mini-fridge and claims to “irradiate” your food using colored lights and radio signals from a transmitter on the top shelf. Close the door, press a button, and boom. It’s pretty much what a microwave does, but the Atomotrone didn’t do anything. Or you might like a type of device called a “radon emitter,” which does exactly what the name promises: expose anything you eat or drink to radioactive gas. Sounds yummy.
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