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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe (www.propublica.org)

submitted 6 months ago by Eccentric to c/longreads

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[–] paysrenttobirds 13 points 6 months ago

Amazing story. And the conflicts among 3M 's own scientists--the need to know, but not know, and what that means for the people doing the work, how it just breaks them and spits them out. This is obviously not limited to a few bad companies--it is baked into the corporate landscape. It is a big reason young people are not excited about "growing" our sick economy. What's in it for people? Poison and humiliation and kill your own values so Grandpa can retire.