So I think Radium Girls were really whistleblowers of their time. When radium decays it divides into two parts. “All of those issues are really turning into something that really requires a major collective force to stand up to. One isotope, radium-224 for example, releases half of its radiation in about three and a half days whereas another isotope, radium-226, releases half of its radiation in about 1,600 years. Asking the question ‘Is it safe to go back to work?’ Economies are being collapsed. You think about the way science is being denied and governments are turning away from the idea of people suffering, falling sick and dying. You think of COVID and radium as elements we don’t know everything about or they didn’t know everything about radium at the time. One isotope, radium-224 for example, releases half of its radiation in about three and a half days. In 1898, the Curies published strong evidence supporting the existence of the new element which they called radium but they still had no sample of it. “I would say in the COVID crisis, there’s so many parallels, it’s really haunting. Each isotope of radium releases radiation at its own rate. “When we were making the movie, we were thinking of events such as the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan, or the way people talk about holding a cell phone up to your brain for hours on end. The significance of “The Radium Girls” being released in 2020: Indeed it did prove that there was no syphilis, she died of radium poisoning.” “When they get home that night, they decide that it’s ultimately something that they have to do. And when the girls came to meet Catherine Riley, who was head of the National Consumers League in New Jersey, she suggested that the only real way to prove that radium poisoning was happening was to exhume a body and the girls were very disturbed by this idea. In real life, there were two sisters who had a third older sister who had died reportedly of syphilis. It was Marie Curie who protested against these therapies and pointed out that the effects of radiation exposure. “As said in the film, syphilis is a diagnosis that not many would want to talk about, and that is actually how the radium poisoning was proven. Examples included radium enema treatments and radium-containing water tonics. Why the company’s doctor diagnosed the sick women with syphilis: The whole story is a true story and the court case that the girls ultimately mounted against the company is a notorious case that is still used today in arguing cases of toxic chemical litigation.” Radium,’ and we changed the name slightly. The true story behind the “American Radium” factory court case: Serious illness caused by being exposed to high doses of certain types of radiation, usually over a short period of time. It has also been used for internal radiation therapy. Radium has been used commercially in luminous paints for watch and instrument dials and for other luminized objects. 12 and it will be available for streaming later this year. In communities where wells are used, drinking water can be an important source of ingested radium. It’s currently showing at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema through Nov. The film is based on true events of how a group of women discovered that their employers were deliberately withholding information about the dangers of the element.
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