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So how do you cover up a workplace epidemic?

If you're Arthur Roeder, president of the United States Radium Corporation, you start by controlling the narrative.

He'd already had some success on that front.

A few years earlier, he was part of a campaign to push Sabin von Sashaki, the inventor of UNDARC and founder of USRC, out of his own company.

Once he was gone, Roeder slipped in as president.

By 1924, Roeder has a serious problem.

Women are dying.

Dentists are noticing patterns.

Questions are being asked.

He needs to get ahead of this thing.

So what does he do?

He reaches out to Harvard.

If he can get a respected scientist to say the deaths have nothing to do with his factory, everyone will believe it.

Cecil Drinker and his wife, Catherine, are researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.

They're respected and credible.

In early 1924, Roeder invites them to inspect the Orange factory.

They examine the workers.