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Thursday 27 July 2023

Fishy Website

https://www.nukepills.com/emergency-kits/





We have had an offline exchange, which was to identify whether the website is fake. The website’s title we have looked up on was Nukepills. According to the website, Nukepills is a major supplier to pharmacies, hospitals, nuclear facilities, other web-based distributors, and governments within the U.S. and worldwide. It is a product that prevents thyroid cancer of those exposed to radioactive iodine following a nuclear accident or detonation of a nuclear weapon. Of course, the nuclear accident happened at Fukushima was also mentioned in the article, promoting that this Nukepills can prevent you from getting cancer.

 

On top of the website many sponsors are listed, including CNN, The New York Times, CBS, and so on. These advertisements allow viewers to trust the website, which the author guides the viewers to buy their products.

the website sells products such as the pills, “radiowash” liquid which washes or hydrolyzes the radioactive iodine with gloves and towels, plastic bags, water bottle, radiation measuring instrument, tools that allows you to open the doors without touching directly with your hand, and so on. With all these products the kit costs $299.95, which is quite expensive.

 

Is the website trustworthy??

These are the information that I found it trustful.

A couple of sponsors are involved with their logos listed on the top of the page.

At the bottom of the page, we could see a sentence “2023 Nukepills Inc. All rights reserved.” With some authentication stamp above it.

It also has the phone number and the address for more info.

We could see some good reviews on the website.

 

On the other hand, if you look at the product through Amazon, there are cruel reviews written about the product with only one or two stars being rated.

 

From these points of view, the website is authorized, yet some facts written are fake. 

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