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Category Archives: science history
Cough Syrup, Dead Children, and the Case for Regulation
Category: consumer protection, science history, Speakeasy Science
Tagged anti-regulation, Arthur Kallet, diethylene glycol, Elixir Sulfanilamide, EPA, ethylene glycol, Ezra Klein, F.J. Schlink FDA, One Hundred Million Guinea Pigs, Pew Research Center, S.E. Massengill, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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At the Door of the Loony Gas Building
Category: consumer protection, lead, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged Alexander Gettler, Charles Kettering, Charles Norris, Dupont, Jr., lead poisoning, leaded gasoline, loony gas, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, Standard Oil, Tetraethyl Lead, Thomas Midgley
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A Dazzle in the Bones
Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged Alexander Gettler, alpha radiation, dial workers, Harrison S. Martland, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, radiation exposure, radioactivity, radium, Radium Girls, The Poisoner's Handbook, U.S. Radium Corporation
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Life in the Undark
Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged alpha radiation, beta radiation, Consumers Union of New Jersey, gamma radiation, Harrison S. Martland, Japan, Marie Curie, nuclear power, polonium, radioactivity, radon, The Poisoner's Handbook, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium
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The Radium Girls
Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, Alexander Gettler, Charles Norris, Harrison S. Martland, Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, N.J., New York City Medical Examiner's Office, nuclear, Orange, Pierre Curie, polonium, radioactivity, radium, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium
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