#50 The Radium Girls
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This week, we’re going all in on body horror and covering one of the nastiest industrial poisoning stories ever. Starting in the 1910’s, radium became a hot consumer product that...
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SOURCES:
-Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, 2017.
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/pills-potions-and-other-miscellany/nico-clean-tobacco-card.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/pills-potions-and-other-miscellany/radithor.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/
https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19981011&slug=2777053
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/100698sci-radium.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_seeker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery
https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/88/radium
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https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls
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