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 12 hours ago | parent [-]

> 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?

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cheschire 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> 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).

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leereeves 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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?

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realityfactchex 11 hours ago | parent [-]

The 50 studies in the cited 2015 book ought to span a range of time, and their keywords could be used to search literature for more recent material.

> Has there been any new information since then?

Since you asked, there apparently was a 2017 followup book by the same author. These links are for that book:

https://harvoa.org/chs/pr/dusbk2.htm

https://www.amazon.com/Ultrasound-Causation-Microcephaly-Vir...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36466945-ultrasound-caus...

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leereeves 11 hours ago | parent [-]

That book claims:

> Microcephaly incidence increased 1000x within the area of The Network. This was first observed seven months after The Network began its remote prenatal ultrasound program. Do the math.

Almost every baby is exposed to prenatal ultrasound. What do you think was different about that ultrasound program? Why would prenatal ultrasound cause microencephaly there, but not everywhere?

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realityfactchex 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> not everywhere?

Are you absolutely certain that there is not an unexplained uptick in brain damaged newborns/children in the USA?

And that its cause is not some thing(s) that "almost every" one of them is subjected to repeatedly?

And that it is not just a case of better/more/over diagnosis?

IDK about by you, but there are literal nurseries/schools for the brain-damaged kids popping up on Main Street. That's how many there seem to be.

So yeah, maybe they're not in that study. But that means they don't exist?

	▲	leereeves 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think that's comparable to what happened in Brazil at that time.