Undark and the Radium Girls (2006)
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Undark and the Radium Girls (2006)
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#3You know, who knows what happened to the investors in US Radium? Where did their funds go, and is there a trail of other problems (or bodies) with their subsequent investments? I'd like to know who I hypothetically should and shouldn't be investing my money with, as I want the world to be a better place.
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#4The article didn't say whether any of the people involved were prosecuted.
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#5My friend Rachel Sumner wrote a song about this that won the John Lennon National Songwriting Contest last year.
https://rachelsumner.bandcamp.com/track/radium-girls-curie-e...
Come hear it live at Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival over Labor Day weekend. Odds are I’ll be working the merch tent for them.
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#7It's cool to see an article with almost 20 years of comments
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#8> 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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#9> The mysterious deaths were often blamed on syphilis to undermine the womens’ reputations, and many doctors and dentists inexplicably cooperated with the powerful company’s disinformation campaign.
What is wrong with people?!
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#10Radium, 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.