we're going to spend on one of this but i want. this weather this part of this. my body in with us if you could a car bomb i just got that already said westy and he thought of getting up there calling you seem to mean to carry out my thought aloud. it is an interest of seals to be a bit keep. in all this. at the end

of the sixty's leo does jones was a prisoner here in holmesburg a suburb of philadelphia in the united states. a prisoner but also a guinea pig for industry like thousands of other inmates. face but this is will the bit of woods as in the human experimentation was born oh many times have you taken that or is that about. maybe twenty is that it's a. little bit was different is that they was one in some sounds a whole lot like to suggest that it's you know ok. this practice was confidential at the time because multinational chemical companies came here to test the risks of their products. to earn a few dollars the prisoners participated in several tasks but none of them knew what they were being given. when they would do they would quit and take that.

and stick implements to the police to get them pull it and then put in troponin the substance would have been was that was in it for in that area and what up enough to . all movement body musk investment station. in certain areas along in a cluster. in money somewhere around in the areas you sign in the papers they mean that it was informed consent for the was just simply been too waved him from beyond the law book. if anything the rhone. one company did everything they could to keep this a secret they even paid leo this jones for his silence. dow chemical. the leading manufacturer of plastics in the world and the third largest

manufacturer of pesticide. chemical has an annual turnover of forty billion dollars and fifty thousand employees around the globe. in the wake of this chemical giant there's an industry of staggering profitability and industry in a frantic race to innovate each year there are new toxic products reach the market these multinationals all have one thing in common a culture of secrecy. this is a weekly test of the no weather radio all hazards warning device for station twenty

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maryland including chesapeake bay north of fools island this concludes the weekly test of noah weather radio all hazards station k h twenty eight in philadelphia pennsylvania thank you for listening to know whether the all hazards. actually toxic. some months later would study its side effects on the prisoners. kind of thing. and there's no way you know what. they were and if. we would put it. with. him when. we found one of the doctors that perform the tests

at holmesburg in the one nine hundred sixty s. . today he's an oncologist at northwestern hospital in chicago. sigman vitamin is preparing to retire. he is one of the few witnesses still alive every day i had. twenty. they were coming in all day. all day long people were absolutely it was. a machine. in one nine hundred sixty seven sigman weitzman was only twenty one years old he was an intern at holmesburg the senior physician overseeing the tests never told him the names of the products used on the prisoners. he only realized later that he administered down action to human beings we show him what dow knew back then about

the chemical. this cereal is exceptionally. well under it's. the years old yeah. very upset. this is the first time you you read this yes. i mean and. i'm appalled i'm just very. it's so agile i also personally. guilty that i was. you don't give me hope it's just simple. it's. you know as if these people aren't just experimental animals and nowadays it would be criminal. was never prosecuted when prisoners tried to take action against the company the statute of

limitations had expired. this multinational would not only poison inmates with dioxin but also tens of thousands of people in midland michigan in the north of the us. middle of. the birthplace of. here at the dol chemical company in midland michigan revolutionary chemical killer. this is where agent orange was manufactured. its production created waste extremely high in dioxin. tao secretly dumped this waste into the river that flows through the city. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one man would discover the truth we had

a conclusion there that it was a major source of not the only source to the river and certainly to the community and that people were at risk. at the time milton clark was a toxicologist for the e.p.a. the government agency responsible for environmental protection. with his colleagues he wrote a report condemning dallas practices. just as much right before the reports publication of the corporation would succeed in pressuring the acting chief of the e.p.a. in washington. we went into shock we had never heard of such a thing ever that the company that we were regulating they would have the right to review a report comment on it before it's released and what did they ask you about and it was critically important to say that people were at risk but they did not want to

just basically want to squash the report ok and eventually the final report they prevailed and so they truncated it down and removed critical sections and all the conclusions were taken away. pressured by his superiors milton clarke was forced to censor the report. the result pollution in midland michigan would continue for thirty years with impunity. and the executives that would continue denying the dangers. there is no health problem and there is absolutely no evidence and doing any damage to humans. in two thousand and six one woman would attack the multinational again. at the time mary gave oversaw all the offices at the environmental agency in the middle unreachable she had leverage

she'd been nominated by the president of the united states george w. bush. newly appointed she demands that more testing be done in the city and we found these astronomically high levels of dioxin levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever in the united states one of things that was astonishing to me when this came to my attention was that for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed on. these high levels though yeah we found that. and yards alongside the river system parks were chilled . play where people launch their boats were fishermen put their boats in the water this is where people live so i immediately called dow senior officials and said we're very concerned about these levels we need you to take action as that unfolded the deck with company was not happy it's extremely expensive to clean up this much contamination hundreds of millions of dollars if not more. to lodge

a complaint to dow goes directly to the white house. i was asked. may first of two thousand and eight to either resign or quit by the end of the day. ok were you surprised yes very much so in my thirty some years of working in environmental protection and much of that spend in the government i would have never expected that that was acting in its own interests the doubt was trying to make sure that it saved as much money as possible. as a result of these maneuvers for decades thousands of people have lived surrounded by dioxin without knowing the risks. we wanted to meet these victims. but in the middle and it's hard to loosen tongues. has supported the city for one hundred twenty years and reminders are at every corner. at the bank the stadium the library

the public park the high school. the shadow of the company is everywhere. and what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president. or some want to. have to try to be for us this is what the forty three of them can't be good that. interesting. reasonable why is it our. first super. bowl make us manufacture consent to stick to public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. with the final merry go

round listen to what. we can all middle of the room sick. or you leave the room. only one person agreed to break the code of silence. this book kilter spends most of her life here near the river this is where she raised her family. oh this is where we used to have the zip line way back here how can we use to have all trails that wind down through here i don't even know if you can see any of them

over here. but eighteen years in. that land is very fertile. and it was used for motor cross trails and hiking trails and dune buggy trails and. just you know recreation in the woods for kids it was like a wonderland it was you know an adventure they could explore and they could build forts and they do all those things no one advised you that there was dioxin done there. now. that we found a magical us for us to play in place of family. for nearly forty years the book kilter family would live here blissfully unaware of their toxic surroundings. every spring the river floods their garden bringing in a fresh wave of dioxins. not discover the true extent of the contamination

until two thousand and seven. when tests were conducted in her garden by the local environmental agency. the levels of dioxin were up to seventeen times higher than the legal limit for toxicity bars. i have my oldest daughter has auto immune diseases you have. kids. many of them do have. disease. i would say all of them. a lesser degree and some to a more severe degree and my husband had a very. answer. real quick and said her late husband herbert brook culture was a doctor a few days before he passed away the last which was brave enough to. when he was

dying to have his blood drawn when he didn't have very much blood left dioxin levels were taken the thursday before he died on sunday he was willing to do it. to ascertain that there was a connection. and. the results of my husband's business his levels these. elders husband had sixty four point five nanograms of dioxin per liter of blood three times the us average. we married forty six years. and. i am glad i have treasured ten more years yet. and. you know that it's been a major impact on my life. the american environmental agency has finally forced down to clean the river. but the process has only just begun it could

take decades and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. he however no date is set for decontaminating neighboring yards like alice book elders. refused all our requests for an interview. in the multinational merely sent us an email stating that we seek science to be solutions that protect human health while also contributing to the well being of the local community. on the other side of the world another contamination is wreaking havoc as a result of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in history thousands of children have been affected. but dow has never dealt with. it happened in india in bhopal.

in one nine hundred eighty four the local chemical plant exploded. killing twenty thousand people and releasing tons of toxic products. at the time the factory belong to union carbide a pesticide giant that dow would buy up in two thousand and one. the site of the bhopal explosion is still saturated with chemical pollution. over the years these. have spread into the city's groundwater systems. for fifteen years the inhabitants have demanded a full decontamination. in vain. refuses to accept. the decaying steel site is still excessive today.

here we meet mr shoe on a former engineer at the time he was in charge of the storage of the chemicals in this laboratory. just both. this one learning time goes to the meeting. right in front. of present but. squire going to pull. them because grounds to do this. is that you know it is dangerous because there's no proper. but he says. among the products stored in the factory there was lindane an extremely toxic insecticide. today it is forbidden all over the world according to our guide the soil surrounding the factory is full of it. this whole area as i look on it and visit

the local object. and then. from then on the ground. and i. made up the band in x. i'll ride. this as fuck and then just. long sleeved. benzine hexa chloride is the scientific name for lynne dame. we go down to the area of the spill to take some samples. the smell is. we'll have the soil analyzed just before leaving mr swan shows us where the pesticides were made. here beads of mercury by exposed in the open air. according to the world health organization this is one of the top ten most

dangerous chemical products in the world we take some more samples. as well you know it's enough to get. the results there are two tests are astonishing. inside the factory the level of mercury is five million times higher than the environmental standard. at this level of concentration the risks of developing liver skin or lung cancers are considerable. and the levels of lindane are just as alarming exceeding one hundred thousand times the standard level. this can provoke severe cases of cerebral degeneration. yet only twenty metres away we see children playing cricket on the contaminated ground. fights oh you know i mean i got i do you often come to play cricket here. do you know that's

a chemical blend that is then goes. back to your diggers. and then either you can. look at these children come here every day to play on the land near the factory they don't seem to realise the risk that they're exposed to. while you're playing inside the country and not outside yet and yeah i had to make it back to get out of the yelling out of that and it leads. i'm getting better and he's going over into things that it's not a good made up that. these kids are not the only ones in danger in bhopal. the chemical contamination stretches far beyond the walls of the factory. the.

toxic waste has penetrated the land and has polluted the water of many neighborhoods up to three kilometers from the factory fifty thousand people live there. we went to take water samples to identify the molecules present in their wells. like in shock as family home. they've lived in this house for almost thirty years. the water they consume contains one point nine micrograms of mercury per liter. two times the standard level of toxicity. in. the. field and i mean.

good for you. if you did. the problem is even in boiled water mercury is still carcinogenic. that is. the stuff of. the system and. in other areas of bo paul it's not mercury but lindane. that wreaks havoc on human lives. this is a problem in. a neighborhood situated one kilometer away from the factory. the municipality has had drink above water since two thousand and eleven but for many years the inhabitants have been drinking severely polluted water. that's the case for ruth money and her thirteen year old daughter ruch now since her birth she's

suffered from limited mental development and muscular dystrophy she can neither talk nor stand up by herself. money her mother drank contaminated water every day during her pregnancy. i didn't. think of this and. a few months after rush knows birth a governmental study was conducted in the area the levels of lindane were extremely high in the water seventeen times the world health organization limit. did you know that the want to drink you when you were pregnant was full of this is a side from the factory then why didn't we want to get in on this one. why do you think this is what's going. on now. it isn't easy

to. get it out find it leave it there leave it there were not. due to her disability rush has never been able to go to school every day she comes to the the rehabilitation center. without these daily exercises she would be completely paralyzed today. to be is the founder of the center she. just watched all these children grow up. if anybody any money for them out. of the money you know you i'm gonna miss out but you can find me pretty and i decided to find these and the money people. have never done but to some of.

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didn't give. up enough of it. in the. house he will never be useful. to talking to the. it was only for me to give you i do believe. that a lot of what i think about come out of a skid but i'm about the same as art when i was up the money into the magazine about you know. giving my mother i love my money how much. they'd still be and i'll leave them right so the.

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