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After that, the drinkers back down and agree to keep their findings private.

But Rotor isn't satisfied with silence.

He needs the opposite to prove the factory is safe.

And then he does something that crosses the line from negligence into conspiracy.

Roeder takes the drinker's report, the one that says the factory is dangerous, and rewrites it.

He changes the damning conclusion to glowing praise.

He claims a contagious infection must be to blame for the girls getting sick.

At the factory, he says, quote, every girl is in perfect condition.

Then he submits this forged document to the New Jersey Department of Labor in the drinker's name, without the drinker's knowledge.

And that should be the end of it.

Roeder has won.

He's silenced Harvard.

He's got a forged report on file with the government.

The perfect cover-up.

Except there's one person Rotor didn't account for.

Her name is Alice Hamilton, a colleague of the drinkers and a pioneering expert on industrial diseases.

Through her contacts at the National Consumers League, Hamilton learns that USRC has submitted the drinker's report to the government, but the version they submitted shows the factory is safe.

Hamilton tells the drinkers what she's found, and Cecil Drinker realizes he's been used.

His name is on a lie.

A lie that's helping kill people.