
Robert Kehoe discovered reports that the chemical benzidine caused bladder cancer. His client, DuPont, made benzidine. Instead of alerting the American public, Kehoe stuffed the report in a box. The moldy records were unearthed decades later when DuPont’s employees, stricken with cancer, sued.
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So many stories like this. A feature of the system, not an outlier.
3M knew in the 70s that PFOS and PFOA were toxic and accumulating in people’s blood.