Comment by cheschire

15 hours ago

well, maybe wearables that provide some sort of internal visual scans. But with CT scans delivering 70 times the radiation of a typical x-ray, I think I'd prefer not wearing a portable chernobyl.

Maybe a wearable ultrasound instead?

edit: after a little informal side-searching after posting this, I've learned that people working at Chernobyl, not in the reactor directly, but elsewhere in the sprawling site received anywhere from 1 to 100 CT scans worth of radiation. The firefighters that were on the roof received anywhere from 100 to 1,600 CT scans worth of radiation.

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realityfactchex  13 hours ago

> Maybe a wearable ultrasound instead?

If one is concerned about the potentially damaging effects of radiation, and the relative safety of ultrasound technology springs to mind, then one may be also interested in reading more about the apparently forbidden topic of ultrasound safety studies, if such a person can get past the cognitive dissonance from having been told the consensus opinion on how safe ultrasound is, e.g.:

https://www.amazon.com/Studies-Conducted-Indicate-Prenatal-U...

https://www.westonaprice.org/book-reviews/50-human-studies-j...

http://whale.to/c/50_human_studies.html

https://harvoa.substack.com/p/dbr

The jury may still be out?

  • cheschire  13 hours ago

    I personally prefer to approach the topic of "safety" by considering the trade-offs. The knowledge gained through ultrasound significantly outweighs potential risks associated with it.

    People still continue to play the lotto thinking they will win, and they reject statistically low risks in lieu of a greater risk created by avoidance. See: any vaccination topic.

    When shifting into the topic of a wearable though, the extreme amount of time alone amplifies the risks into outright dangerous levels. I did not seriously believe ultrasound to be safe to that level.

    • realityfactchex  12 hours ago

      > a wearable though, the extreme amount of time alone amplifies the risks

      The time, and also the proximity.

      As I understand it, the potential dangers of a lot of these kinds of things dissipate quite rapidly with distance.

      But with wearables, the emitters are quite literally strapped against the body (practically zero distance).

  • leereeves  13 hours ago

    All of those links are for the same book from 2015 (the fourth isn't direct to the relevant article but it's easy to find on the page). Has there been any new information since then?