References and suggested further reading

Below are some references and suggested further reading. This page is still being completed. If you have feedback or recommendations, please let us know.

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Historical Dangerous Products

Pre-Show Music:

• Music: Radioactive Mama: Sheldon Allman (1960) 
• Music: Radioactive - Madilyn Bailey (Imagine Dragons Acoustic Cover)
• Music: A Toxic - Alex & Sierra (Britney Spears cover)
• Music: ​​​Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park​​
• Jingle: Kent cigarettes with Micronite filters

​DDT

• Gallery: Vintage Pesticide Paraphernalia From the Glory Days of DDT | Wired 
• Gallery: DDT Ads | Science History Institute
• Article: ​DDT: The Situation Today | Ask an Entomologist
• Article: Retro Report: Rachel Carson, DDT and the Fight Against Malaria | NYT
• Paper: Scientific paper on prenatal exposure
• Paper: Autism & DDT: What 1 Million Pregnancies Can - & Can't - Reveal | Scientific American
• Paper: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels With Autism

Lead

• Booklet: The Dutch Boy's Lead Party - Coloring Book & Poem 
• Video: ​Lead-Based Makeup Tutorial for Spring! - Ask a Mortician
• Video: Lead: The Original Artificial Sweetener - SciShow | YouTube
• Video: A Toddler Chewed Lead Paint Off His Toys. This Is What Happened To His Brain. | Chubby Emu | YouTube  - by a medical doctor.
• ​Article: The Real Story Behind Margot Robbie’s Wild Queen Elizabeth Makeup | Slate
• Article: Why does airplane gas still have lead in it? | Popular Science
• Paper: Involvement of Environmental Mercury and Lead in the Etiology of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Monnet-Tschudi et al,2006, Reviews on environmental health
• Paper: Oxidative Stress in Lead and Cadmium Toxicity and Its Amelioration, Patra et al, 2011, Vet Med Int.

​Thallium

• Wiki: ​List of thallium murders from the news and in fiction | Wikipedia
• ​News: Omlette nails servant trying to kill woman with rat poison | Times of India
• Article: White Russians 2004 At-Risk Survivors | Darwin Awards
• Article: The Chemistry of Poisons – Thallium | Compound Interest
• Article: Thallium Overview | International Genetically Engineered Machine
  
• Paper: Thallium Toxicity, Kemnic & Coleman 2019​

Mercury

• Book: Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present | Alison Matthews David
• Video: A Scientist Spilled 2 Drops Organic Mercury On Her Hand. This Is What Happened To Her Brain. | Chubbyemu | YouTube - by a doctor
• Govt page: Mercury | Lisa Quiggle | Michigan Department of Community Health 
• Govt guide: Products that contain mercury | Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, Washington
• Govt guide: Mercury | US EPA
• Paper: Involvement of Environmental Mercury and Lead in the Etiology of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Monnet-Tschudi et al, 2006. Reviews on environmental health. 21. 105-17. 

Arsenic

• Video: How Wallpaper Poisoned The Victorians | Absolute History | YouTube
• Book: ​Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Home | Lucinda Hawksley​
• Article: ​"Bitten by Witch Fever": Why Poison Was Everywhere in the Victorian Era | The Atlantic
• Article: The Arsenic Pigments that Poisoned the Victorian Age
• Article: Fatal Victorian Fashion and the Allure of the Poison Garment
• Article: How a Library Handles a Rare & Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples - Atlas Obscura
• Article: How we discovered three poisonous books in our university library
• Paper: Blood’s 70th anniversary: arsenic—from poison pill to magic bullet, Griffin, Blood, 2016, Blood

Electricity

• Gallery: Anti-electricity cartoon from 1900 : pics / orig source
• Gallery: Strange Antique Medical Devices That Promised to Cure Everything With Electricity | Wired​
• Gallery: Photos from the Days When Thousands of Cables Crowded the Skies
• Book: The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American | Carolyn Thomas de la Pena 

Asbestos

• ​​Article: Remember When Big Tobacco Sold Asbestos as the “Greatest Health Protection”? | Mother Jones
• Video: Why Asbestos Was The Absolute Worst For The Edwardians | Absolute History | YouTube

X-Rays

• Paper: Early victims of X-rays: a tribute and current perception, Sansare et al, 2011, Dentomaxillofacial Radiology
• Article: X-rays and Hair Removal | Cosmetics and Skin
• Gallery & Article: Tricho System | Museum of Quackery
• Article: X-Raw Hair Removal | Engines of Our Ingenuity | University of Houston
• Wiki: Shoe-fitting fluoroscope | Wikipedia
• Article: You might not need a mammogram until you turn 50 | Popular Science

Hydrogenated Margerine

• Article: The Butter Wars: When Margarine Was Pink | National Geographic
• Article: A brief history of Margarine (and Trans fat) | Cardiologists Kitchen | Medium
• Govt report: Saturated fats and health | Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition

Olean / Olestra

• Video: An ironic ad for Olestra

Radioactive

• Chart: xkcd.com/radiation
• Book: Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything | Dr Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen​

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Safe Products

Tomatoes

• Wiki: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes | Wikipedia
• Article: ​What Was Wrong With 16th Century Europeans That They Didn't Like Tomatoes? - Gastro Obscura
• Article: ​The Salem...Tomato Trial?​

Saccharin
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Cell Phones & Cell Phone Towers

• Video: Could Your Phone Hurt You? Electromagnetic Pollution | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell | YouTube
• Forum: Residents of a neighborhood complaining of mysterious ailments from a new cell phone tower. During a meeting the owner revealed that the tower had been off for over a month. Residents didn't show up to the followup meeting | Reddit
• Article: ​Massive revelation in iBurst tower battle

Irradiated Food

• Article: ​Why Don't We Irradiate all Germ-carrying Food? | Scientific American
• Article: ​​Food Irradiation: Facts and Figures | Food Safety News
• Academic Assessment: ​Food Irradiation: Why Aren’t We Using It? | Harvard Law School
• Govt Guide: ​Food Irradiation: What You Need to Know | FDA
• Govt Guide: ​RadTown: Learn about radiation in your world! | EPA

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Current Dangerous Products

Labels

• Video: ​Why Cancer Labels Are Super Misleading | SciShow | YouTube
• Website: IARC classifications | Cancer Council Australia

Acrylamide

• Govt Site: Acrylamide | Food Standards Agency

Plants

• Book: Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities | Amy Stewart 
• Video: 9 Poisonous Plants You Might Have Around Your House | SciShow | YouTube

Raw Milk:

• ​Article: Coroner rules raw milk caused death of three-year-old boy | Food Safety News​​

Cooking Oils

• Chart: Oil Well - Information is Beautiful

Alcohol

• Article: Did Drinking Give Me Breast Cancer? | Mother Jones

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Research Advice

Pessimistic Induction Theory 

• Podcast: There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified? (Ep. 285) | Freakonomics Radio​​
  
• Article: This is why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study | Vox
• Paper: Is everything we eat associated with cancer?, Schoenfeld & Ioannidis, 2013, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition​

​Research Resources

• The Ultimate Cheatsheet for Critical Thinking
  

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