How the lead industry lied to the public for decades - Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner

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In the 1970s, pediatrician Herbert Needleman and colleagues collected and analyzed the baby teeth of schoolchildren across Boston and Philadelphia in return for small rewards. But their so-called “Tooth Fairy Project” confirmed a dark reality: many kids had been exposed to lead. Lead is a metallic element that's distributed across Earth's crust. Wh... Read More