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Miners Made To Inhale Toxic Powder

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by flutterby, Apr 15, 2017.

  1. flutterby

    flutterby Active Member

    http://www.metronews.ca/news/toront...id-devastating-price.html?cq_ck=1492264309422

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    10,000 Ontario miners. Its tool: a mysterious black powder they were forced to inhale in a sealed room before plunging underground to work.

    From 1943 to roughly 1980, an aluminum-based prophylaxis called McIntyre Powder was sold as an apparent miracle antidote to lung disease. It was designed, historical documents suggest, by industry-sponsored Canadian scientists bent on slashing compensation costs in gold and uranium mines across the north."

    Janice Martell has pulled together hundreds of pages of research on the experiment after her miner father, Jim Hobbs, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2001."
     

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