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316 - Bayer AG: The Most EVIL Corporation in the World?

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Great Phenol Plot

The great phenol plot was a clandestine effort by the German government to divert American-produced phenol away from the manufacture of high explosives that supported the British war effort. Phenol wasn't only a potential pain reducer, right? It could also be changed into pick-ric acid, which is used in TNT and plenty of other kinds of explosives. Even today, chemistry classes and amateur pyromaniacs can extractPick-ric acid from aspirin to make explosions. And if you do that and you blow some fingers off or your neighbor's house, you didn't get that idea listened to this podcast.

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