Carter Roy
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It continues through World War II, but the lip-pointing stops and workers get protective equipment.
Eventually, radium gets replaced altogether.
Today, if I crack open this glow stick, I don't have to worry about it harming me.
So, what do we make of this story?
On one level, this is a tale of corporate greed and callous disregard for human life.
The executives at USRC and Radium Dial know their workers are being poisoned.
They choose profits over people.
They lie.
They cover up.
They destroy evidence.
And they smear the reputations of dying women.
There's no shadowy cabal here.
No secret society.
Just people with information deciding who else gets to have it.
that's a conspiracy that shows up more often than you'd think.
The people who know choosing silence.
The people with power deciding the truth would cost them too much.
On another level, it's a story of remarkable courage.
Women like Grace Fryer and Catherine Donahue, their bodies literally falling apart, refuse to stay silent.
They fight for years against powerful corporations.