Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont

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jvans · 2023-02-08 · Original thread

This story is a broken record that just repeats over and over again in different forms and industries. It follows the general form of:

1. Develop some profitable product

2. years later people report horrible effects

3. Big co denies and stalls for years/decades

4. Hundreds of thousands /millions of people are negatively effected

5. Science eventually overwhelms any counter argument and product in taken off market

6. Go back to step 1 with different product

Some other examples:

1. Big tobacco

2. Teflon(PFOAs) [1]

3. Generic drugs [2]

4. Regular drugs [3]

5. Leaded gasoline [4]

spodek · 2021-05-13 · Original thread

Also watch The Devil We Know, which you can watch free at ThoughtMaybe: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-devil-we-know.

The Intercept and New York Times cover the issue well.

Robert Bilott's book Exposure https://www.amazon.com/Exposure-Be-Confirmed/dp/1501172816 covers the story of the lawyer who successfully sued DuPont and is continuing that legal pursuit.

I also recommend my podcast with Robert Bilott: https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/robert-bilott