Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/RG9HF

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Dreizehn@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y

Shareholders and deregulation. Amazing how it passed through blood transfusions.

Dymonika@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If hell exists, these people are going to a deep circle in it.

xor@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 2y
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