#argonmasters

Tried to post this in response to the existing post about this by @ebonyheartnet but they hid the note and blocked me. Still think it's kinda lame for the misinformation to be out there and for the notes to make it look like no one disagrees (even tho people clearly are if you dig via Google search) but since they're doubling down in this way, I will do my best to get this into the tags the other one was under and see if that does anything. Please check the YouTubers pinned comments for some slight corrections (video is still correct it's just some language things).

Once again I am begging people to actually look up how radiation and radioactive materials work. For the love of god. 😭

Yellowcake (the compound used in Bekah's paint) is >99% uranium-238, which emits alpha particles only as it (notably, very slowly) decays. Alpha particles can't even penetrate the skin. You could stop the decay coming off of her paint swatch in her original video by covering it with a piece of paper.

It's only dangerous if it enters the body, i.e. through breathing it in or eating it. And, notably, Bekah in her video that I've linked, is shown wearing the appropriate PPE for working with yellowcake (yellowcake is a dust, not a vapor, that respirator she was wearing was fine lmao). The only main concern with it is its heavy metal qualities, not unlike cadmium or lead (also used in paints). She also disclaims in each video to not try making any of her paints at home, since her whole thing is creating historical paints that are hazardous.

Thinking that a tiny amount of paint with yellowcake in it was going to do the same level of damage that abandoned enriched radioactive elements (see: Goiânia, Samut Prakan, which were cesium-137 and cobalt-60 orphan sources respectively) is absolutely asinine. And this is before getting into the sheer delusional territory of making 80+ videos about this creator and how she's somehow a "danger," without researching and figuring out that you're exposed to more radiation from a dental X-ray then you are from yellowcake paint (even if you stood next to it for a year)! it's roughly 1.66 micro Sieverts. You get magnitudes more radiation from taking a commercial flight.

(the ever-incredible xkcd is the source of this)