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Lauren Ford asked this question about The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women:
I'm trying to decide whether to buy the Kindle edition or the hardback edition of this book. The deciding factor is if the Kindle edition includes photos, like I believe the hardcover edition does. Can someone tell me this?
Kathlyn Terrible book. It was a story my husband and I really wanted to read as we are physicists specialising in medical physics: nuclear medicine, radiother…moreTerrible book. It was a story my husband and I really wanted to read as we are physicists specialising in medical physics: nuclear medicine, radiotherapy and radiation protection (hubs was even on the national emergency team for major incidents involving radiation).

We struggled on with the awful writing style but when it got to Moore's explanation of the physics we were horrified. She mixed up completely alpha, beta and gamma radiation; confused rays and particles and totally ommitted the very salient fact that radium, like samarium and plutonium, is a bone seeker. A five minute conversation with an expert would have clarified - hell, even five minutes on google would have left her better informed.

After that she lost any credibility at all. Audio book returned to library unfinished. After all those women went through and she couldn't even be bothered to try to get the most basic facts right. (less)
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