In recent decades, some people have gone in for a new-ish fad in alternative health.

Breathing radioactive gas in the hope of realizing some sort of medical benefit, and the

data is clear that the only proven effect is lung cancer, but that doesn't stop the

true believers from continuing to go.

And it doesn't stop the profiteers from taking their money.

Read on Therapy is today Unskeptoid.

Decoder Ring is Slates Podcast about cracking cultural mysteries.

In each episode, host Willa Pascon takes a cultural question, object, or habit.

Examines its history and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.

The latest season is full of juicy topics like, remember the viral phenomenon in optical

mindblower known as the Dress.

What can we learn from the rise and fall of one of the most well-known personal injury

law firms in America?

Listen to these episodes and more on Decoder Ring, wherever you get your podcasts.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Read on Therapy.

And what seems like a throwback to the days when quack medical products included radium,

causing people's jaws to fall off from cancer, some people are once again turning to a carcinogenic

radioactive element for their health.

This time it's not radium, but radon, an alpha particle emitter, and second only to

smoking as a cause of deaths from lung cancer.

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