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The Company That Dosed a Town: Inside Minamata's Silent Massacre
The Company That Dosed a Town: Inside Minamata's Silent Massacre
A company hospital admitted a five-year-old who could not walk, speak, or stop convulsing - while the firm that ran that hospital had been dumping methylmercury into the bay for years. Fish-becoming-poison, cats “dancing,” and two kilograms of mercury per ton of sediment paint a town poisoned from its food chain; how did this last for decades without being stopped?
In this episode, we tell the chronological record of what happened in Minamata, who was involved, and how the science, corporate decisions, and suppression unfolded -…
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