Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "The Story of the Radium Girls | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror" video.

  1. I can totally forgive companies for mistakenly thinking that it was safe, given the prevailing wisdom, but I can't forgive the slurring and dismissal of victims. To write that one girl off as having died of syphillis was a really nasty stain on character.
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  2.  @sarabachmann2837  Oh wow, that's despicable.
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  3.  @KaladinVegapunk  Same with asbestos and asbestosis, fibre glass manufacture and lung conditions, coal mining and black lung. So much we didn't know was harmful.
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  4. Yeah, same with lead, and tobacco, and thalidomide. Numerous products in fact.
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  5.  @markrichards636  In the early days, the world thought that not only was it safe, but it was beneficial.
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  6.  @tonykrizan3641  Yeah, but judging by all the comments, they KNEW that the chemical she'd worked with caused it so...
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  7.  @Walamonga1313  Given that the computer KNEW that radium was problematic by that stage, it would have been most prudent to at least withhold speculation until a definitive answer could be demonstrated, especially when the speculation was so scurrilous.
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  8.  @Alex-cb2gf  Oh I hadn't heard of that one!
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  9.  @lasagnakob9908  Their workers who were licking radium brushes coated in it?
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  10.  @cosmicnixx7658  Yeah, repugnant.
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  11.  @shaymorcormick8743  The people who made those decisions should have hung for them.
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  12.  @shaymorcormick8743  OMG that's horrific. And just bear in mind that almost every major corporation today is precisely as immoral. Most of them are contributing to the extinction of life on Earth for goodness sakes!
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  13.  @lisaswinson8187  It's utterly despicable!
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  14.  @chaosoutoforder2969  Yeah, despicable.
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  15.  @melisentiapheiffer3034  I don't think it's that deliberate - I think they simply didn't give a damn.
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