They used to have people paint on radium with there mouth. Those people ended up losing there jaw and teeth so there would just be a bunch of mutilated skin left
Kinda close… women painted lume on clock dials and arms. They were told the luminous radium paint was safe and they used their lips to put a point on the paintbrushes they were using. The same companies that told them it was safe pushed the dentists and doctors seeing the effects attribute it to STDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls has a really good summary.
And the most damning part of all imo: “the owners and the scientists familiar with the effects of radium carefully avoided any exposure to it themselves. Chemists at the plant used lead screens, tongs, and masks.”.
The plant owners definitely knew that they were killing people, there should have been murder charges imo.
Not to mention all the grifters treating fucking radium like a vitamin.
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Apparently it sends your immune system into maximum overdrive, which feels great. For a while.
They used to have people paint on radium with there mouth. Those people ended up losing there jaw and teeth so there would just be a bunch of mutilated skin left
Kinda close… women painted lume on clock dials and arms. They were told the luminous radium paint was safe and they used their lips to put a point on the paintbrushes they were using. The same companies that told them it was safe pushed the dentists and doctors seeing the effects attribute it to STDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls has a really good summary.
And the most damning part of all imo: “the owners and the scientists familiar with the effects of radium carefully avoided any exposure to it themselves. Chemists at the plant used lead screens, tongs, and masks.”.
The plant owners definitely knew that they were killing people, there should have been murder charges imo.