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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

In the 1960s or so, the great love affair with asbestos, at least for the general public, was over as television and newspaper reports highlighted the health risks of the substance. And faced with this backlash, the asbestos industry reacted by revisiting safety regulations...and funding studies that would conclude that, oh, this amount of dust is perfectly safe. Those are the ones which drive me up a wall.

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