> It purportedly could cure cancer and impotence and give those who used it an “all-around healthy glow,” as one advertisement put it. During the early 1900s, it was added to medicines, cosmetics and sometimes even food. The Denver-based Radio-Active Chemical Company added radium to fertilizers. The Nutex Company made radium condoms.

Every generation seems to think they can't possibly make such ignorant mistakes as were made in the past. It makes me wonder what we will observe in a hundred or so years from now what we're currently doing that we aren't aware of how harmful it is.

I find reads like this interesting, but I'm discouraged when things like "The Nutex Company made radium condoms." are mentioned but are also not quite right[1].

I have doubts now about how well everything was researched which is a shame because it's an otherwise interesting article.

[1] http://museumofradium.co.uk/nutex-radium-condoms/