Carter Roy

Cecil no longer cares about losing funding.

He cares about saving people.

So he ignores USRC's legal threats and publishes his original report in August, 1925.

So now the truth is out there, published in a medical journal.

Anyone can see what the drinkers discovered at the factory.

But here's the problem.

A medical journal only goes so far.

It's not a government order.

USRC can just ignore it, hire their own experts to dispute it, call it one scientist's opinion.

And that's exactly what they do.

There's no government investigation, no shutdown, and no arrests.

The company keeps operating, and the girls keep licking radium off of their paint brushes.

But then something happens that's harder to ignore.

On June 7th, 1925, USRC's own chief chemist, a man named Dr. Edwin Lehman, dies.

Same symptoms as the dial painters.

Okay, now here's what's important.

Edwin Lehman is a scientist.

He's not some teenage girl from the factory floor.

When the dial painters got sick, the company could dismiss them.

Hysterical women, weak constitutions, promiscuous girls with syphilis.