Talk:Bad Gastein

Like a travel brochure
Seems to be more of a travel brochure than an Encyclopedia article. If I knew more than the very little I learned in travelling to Bad Gastein, I would rewrite the article, but let me be wise and leave it up to an expert.


 * I've been there quite a number of times, but I'm not sure I qualify as an expert. I made some changes that should make it a little bit more neutral. Honestly, I'm a huge fan of the place. Britonkolber 20:42, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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surely it isnt a city - is it? urbansurgery 11:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I changed the word village to town, but I feel sure that I recall the word City being used elsewhere but I feel sure that town ( alibi small), does it better justice.

Also it enjoys good transport links, the railway line is on the vienna loop, so plenty of choice re getting there and leaving Bab Gastein. The roads are also superb as in most of Austria.

The Changering —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.147.20 (talk) 16:34, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

It says that the skiing is moderate to good. how is this rated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.120.53.18 (talk) 08:40, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't think 'notoriety' is the correct word to use in this sentence: "From the 1960s on the resort lost some of its former notoriety"; notoriety is like infamy. Bobbozzo (talk) 21:15, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Notoriety or infamy makes perfect sense. High doses of radon gas cause lung cancer, and Bad Gastein has some of the highest levels of radon gas in the world, which people intentionally expose themselves to. It isn't exactly a new discovery that radioactive substances are bad for human health. A town whose main claim to fame is "medical" spas where people expose themselves to dangerous levels of radioactive substances deserves to be notorious and infamous. Honestly, people, look at the health effects of radon article on Wikipedia and educate yourselves about this. And on the radon article it says, regarding this specific spa town, "The concentration in the air at the (unventilated) Gastein Healing Gallery averages 43 kBq/m³ (about 1.2 nCi/L) with maximal value of 160 kBq/m³ (about 4.3 nCi/L)." That level is several orders of magnitude higher than what is considered safe, 4 Bq/m³ is the maximum safe level according to the EPA, the average level in Bad Gastein is 10,000 times higher, and the maximum level in Bad Gastein is 40,000 times higher. This is, quite simply, radioactive quackery which is potentially deadly and given the many years of popularity of the Bad Gastein spas, there are probably thousands of people who have died as a result of visiting these spas over the many years they have been in operation, probably including some of the famous people mentioned.

My point is, this article doesn't mention these obvious dangers at all and instead talks about this dangerous exposure to radioactive gas as if it is actually beneficial. That is a serious flaw in this article. I don't exactly know the best way to address it so I am just mentioning this here on the talk page for future reference so that other editors of this page are aware of the fact that, yes, this is controversial, and actually the vast majority of scientists and medical professionals consider radon gas at the levels found in Bad Gastein to be very dangerous, sometimes deadly. --Yetisyny (talk) 09:48, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

No airport?
The Transportation section mentions railway and motorway access, and it tells how Bad Gastein connects by those means to other parts of Austria, but there is no mention of access by air travel. It's hard to believe that there is no way to get to Bad Gastein by air. Even if the most accessible international or even regional airport is a substantial distance away from Bad Gastein, its location should be mentioned.

This is important not to enhance the article's usefulness to potential visitors, like a travel brochure (which Wikipedia definitely is not), but because infrastructure for public transport is important information about any community significant enough to merit a Wikipedia article. —104.244.192.86 (talk) 05:17, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

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