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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social |
Reposting because this story is so wild: A scientist for the company that created Scotch Tape & Post-its discovered its toxic chemicals in human blood in the ‘90s. Despite findings showing widespread contamination, her research was stopped by executives who kept the information secret
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Anita Xanax
@anitaxanax.bsky.social
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Romy invented Post-Its though!
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Bianca Iris
@biancairis.bsky.social
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This IS wild. Scary. It's really hard to justify capitalism when corporations make decisions that benefit their pockets over the health of their own customers. 😲
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Wheredafukarwi
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Just like Dupont. The movie Dark Waters is a shocking true story about the forever chemicals that the underfunded EPA left it to industry to regulate themselves. But they didn't, even as they lied that they were.
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Michael Maris
@edrobot.bsky.social
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Is it that wild? Because that is pretty much the most predicable thing ever.
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Oday.🦋🇵🇸
@odayahmed.bsky.social
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Please share the donation campaign to save this child’s life gfund.m/5811sfdb
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Summer mode Adam
@salsa-wits.bsky.social
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Stephen A: now you know that I don’t believe in the death penalty Skip: of course Stephen A: it’s barbaric and ineffective as a deterrent Skip: yes it is Stephen A: BUT-
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Choying Palmo
@cchoetso.bsky.social
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Gobsmacked that Hansen started Googling the negative impacts of PFOS and PFAS on humans only AFTER the 2021 airing of the John Oliver show. HOLY COW. Denialism to the max!
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Patchouli Woollahra
@woollahra.bsky.social
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Forever chemicals are a problem, and the foremost reason why immortality for humans will not come until we figure out cloning, mind transfer... or clean up our shitty act.
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Sarah B
@bio2sarah.bsky.social
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Marilee
@auntmarilee.bsky.social
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I normally don’t make it through an article this long, but I did with this one. Wow.
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Everything is Public Health
@everythingisph.bsky.social
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Under capitalism, profit takes priority over the truth
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Darius Aidala
@darius101.bsky.social
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What?!
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๔๏ﻮ ๓คຖ 🦋
@dogsoldier.bsky.social
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Joshua Sharp
@joshuasharp.bsky.social
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Because none of them will end up in prison for it. I think people have a hard time comprehending just how much money 3M made on this line of chemicals. Any fine or settlement is just a cost of doing business. If you want shit like this to stop happening, start putting CEOs, and COOs in prison.
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Secretoriginz
@secretoriginz.bsky.social
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Reminds me of watches they used to paint with radium so they'd glow in the dark.
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Michael Dettelbach
@erdumwandler.bsky.social
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This reads like an introduction to the history and philosophy of science. What does it mean to know? When do you know you know? What is the relationship between measurement/ observation and knowledge? Between data and explanation/ understanding? Asking and answering?
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Shatter Ⓥ 𓅃
@shatter.bsky.social
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This reads like the findings about Lead. Oil companies "it's fine, a little lead is good for you!"
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Val.
@shutterval.bsky.social
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Good grief yikes👀 30 years later wild
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Richard Swift
@swiftofopal.bsky.social
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Hardly a shocker 3m sold asbestos products for years. Then they made safety products to remove asbestos.
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Thomas Brooke
@militarybrook.bsky.social
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Real WILD
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Coda🦉
@heyitscoda.bsky.social
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The bigger jaw dropper is that they already knew before her research. Per Johnson's claim, he detected it in the general population as early as the late '70s.
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M15c4t0n1c 🐙
@m15c4t0n1c.bsky.social
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Thanks, many thanks to show this to us! 😳💙
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Joseph O
@josepho.bsky.social
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In cases like this, 3M should be fined out of existence and all of the executives put in jail for life. This is a crime against humanity and it should be treated as such.
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Mike
@mikekehoe.bsky.social
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Why does nothing like this surprise me anymore? 🤦🏻♂️
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Mrs G Kravitz
@mrsgkravitz.bsky.social
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Holy shit… what an 👁️ opening read.. ‼️‼️
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Nataly 🏳️⚧️
@nightpups.bsky.social
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Feel like there should be some sort of extremely strict law that allows/forces research like this to be published, including anti retaliation laws for the researcher and heafty (100 mil+ fines and imprisonment for executives) for not publishing critical research like this.
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CyberneticGuerilla
@cyberneticguerilla.bsky.social
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Meh. All we can do is seek revenge for the things they've taken from us now. Capitalism allowed this. Hopefully we can end this.
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Thomas Fehige
@thomasfehige.bsky.social
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Pablo
@scottsd.bsky.social
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It's cool that you can commit pretty much any crime you want as long as you're doing it for the shareholders.
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💤arleck from Space
@zarleckazpa.bsky.social
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iF tHaT's WhY mY rEtIrEmEnT fUnD iS dOiNg So WeLl, ThEn I'm HaPpY tHeY dId It!
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Prophesy Not Punditry
@danlb.bsky.social
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Isn’t this a rewrite of the story that first appeared in the New Yorker?
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Ursula
@ursular.bsky.social
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Ursula
@ursular.bsky.social
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There is a book by a journalist here in Germany, @christianstoecker.de:
Men who burn the world.
This seems to me to be the first part of a series.
The next volume could be called:
Men who poison the world.
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Tillee Was Here
@tillee.bsky.social
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A good companion piece to Dark Waters.
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DrGeophysics
@drgeophysics.bsky.social
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Business ethics is an oxymoron eh? Shocking.
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mav
@mav.wtf
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the fact that 3M exists after this information was made public is absolute proof that our government has completely failed us. (you know, assuming you looked at everything else the US did in the last forever and said "eh, that's ok")
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Itsy Bitsy Araneidae
@itsyaranei.bsky.social
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Someone on Facebook said it best. We only need to eat one or two billionaires and CEO's in the streets, and the others will get in line pretty quick. Also, I think Dark Waters is still on Netflix right now.
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sherri 11/07
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Courts decided companies were people, now companies expect to be treated like gods. They buy politicians, buy judges and Justices, and literally get away with murder.
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Slip Slidin' Away
@liberallibra.bsky.social
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Everything... EVERYTHING.....Is bad for you ..nothing...NOTHING is safe to use, ingest or look at ...so, what's the options? Stop breathing, stop eating, stop looking, stop living?
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Slip Slidin' Away
@liberallibra.bsky.social
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In the words of that great poet song writer of the 1960s, Bob Dylan: "We're only a pawn in their game"...
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jonnoh
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It's never in a business's interest to self regulate when they have little or no consequences. You're right, it is wild. Wild that it's the status quo.
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TooPlain
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Some of this article reminds me of the game portal 1/2 and its lore.
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