> supervisors assured them that rosy cheeks would be the only physical side effect to swallowing the radium-laced pigment
A nice reminder that you shouldn't drink the koolaid unless you can actually see your bosses doing it.
Undark and the Radium Girls (2006)
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#22> supervisors assured them that rosy cheeks would be the only physical side effect to swallowing the radium-laced pigment A nice reminder that you shouldn't drink the koolaid unless you can actually see your bosses doing it.
In the incident that coined “drinking the koolaid”, the bosses did drink it.
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#24Always such an awful story to read and re-remember. The invisible hand sometimes seems to engage in some rather horrible things for the sake of a buck.
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#25> The report which the company provided to the New Jersey Department of Labor credited Cecil Drinker as the author, however the ominous descriptions of unhealthy conditions were replaced with glowing praise How did this blatant fraud not automatically prompt the government to come down hard on USR?!
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#26It's cool to see an article with almost 20 years of comments
Agreed, and also the comments dropped off steeply 10 years ago in 2014.
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#27If you read almost any literature taking place the first half of the 20th century, you'll see that a lot of industries were highly abusive of workers, not just radium industry. I'm sure it's even worse pre-20th century. For example: - coal mining (read: "The Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickam) - tons of coal mining injury, death, and chronic illness (black lung). Stakeholders were aware of the causes of black lung but put…
The textile industry. Dockworkers. Migrant workers (see Cesar Chavez). Youtube content moderators. The list goes on.
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#28Radium, Lead, Asbestos, Nicotene, R-12 refrigerant, Social Media Seems like a lot of things that are an initial good, but turn out to be not so hot after a decade or so.
Well, we've known about the dangers of lead for an awfully long time: > https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0960327117737146
I feel like what let it go on so long was the massive campaigns that used blatant racism as misinformation.
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#29> supervisors assured them that rosy cheeks would be the only physical side effect to swallowing the radium-laced pigment A nice reminder that you shouldn't drink the koolaid unless you can actually see your bosses doing it.
I’ll pass either way.
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#30> supervisors assured them that rosy cheeks would be the only physical side effect to swallowing the radium-laced pigment A nice reminder that you shouldn't drink the koolaid unless you can actually see your bosses doing it.
In the incident that coined “drinking the koolaid”, the bosses did drink it.
Jonestown?