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Ep 118 Asbestos: Corruption and cancer and corporate greed, oh my!

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The History of Asbestos

The history of asbestos is unsurprisingly huge. This spans thousands of years, encompasses the entire globe. Having to distill this entire history down into like an hour and a half, hour, whatever podcast, it's a little daunting because I know that I won't be able to do this entire story justice. So what I'm going to do in the history section is present the history of asbestos in basically two parts. In the second part, I want to take a closer look at why asbestos has earned this notoriety as an industrial killer by taking us through the story of Libby Montana.

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