Carter Roy
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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.
Many of them die before seeing the outcome of their lawsuits.
But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the story is how easily it almost stays hidden.
The companies come terrifyingly close to getting away with it.
If Alice Hamilton hadn't discovered the forged report, if Raymond Berry hadn't agreed to take the case, if Elizabeth Hughes hadn't provided irrefutable scientific evidence,