{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrime-salad.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-deadly-radium-craze-OSje067a","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Deadly Radium Craze","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/2a5b2793-8836-4839-a6db-63f4ba9ac5e7/f85b5938-ae31-4b45-a101-8032c9e3043f/0d5cc14574e5d47e772780c5d72b9f5a.png","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Crime Salad steps into Weird History, traveling back to the early 1900s, when a glowing new element promised progress, beauty, and modern life.\nIn this episode of Weird History by Crime Salad, we explore the rise of radium mania, from the young women who became known as the Radium Girls, to the powerful corporations that insisted radium was safe while workers grew sick and died.\nWe touch on crumbling jaws, altered death certificates, and why early causes of death were quietly labeled as syphilis instead of radium poisoning. Names like Grace Fryer and Mollie Maggia emerge as whispers of a much larger truth.\nBut the danger was not limited to factories.\nWhile workers were suffering, wealthy Americans were drinking radium by choice. Products like Radithor promised vitality and youth, until cases like Eben Byers forced the country to pay attention.\nFrom glowing watches and military dials made with Undark, to radium water crocks, cosmetics, alarm clocks, toys, and other everyday items, radioactive products found their way into homes across America.\nThis episode looks at what happens when science, profit, and blind trust collide, and how the voices of the Radium Girls ultimately changed workplace safety and radiation laws forever.\nSometimes the most dangerous things are the ones that glow.\nRadium Girls\nRadium poisoning\nSyphilis death certificates\nU.S. Radium\nUndark paint\nRadithor\nEben Byers\nRevigator\nRadium cosmetics\nRadioactive consumer products\nWorkplace safety history"}