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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.

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
Picture
​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​

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

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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