The Messed Up Truth About The Radium Girls

They may sound like a forgotten ‘80s new wave band, but the Radium Girls were actually young female employees who were hired in the early 20th century to paint watches with a special radium paint. They were told it was harmless, so plenty of them had fun with the glow-in-the-dark paint, but we know today that radium is anything but harmless.

It led to the gradual deaths of the Radium Girls, and the saddest thing of all is just how preventable it all was. From the way they were ostracized to the special methods of burial, let’s take a look at the messed-up truth about the Radium Girls.

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The birth of radium paint | 0:00
Painting bodies with radium | 1:21
Originally marketed as a cure-all | 2:02
The sickness started slowly | 3:12
From bad to worse | 3:51
Companies covered up the controversy | 4:44
Fighting for compensation | 5:25
Abandoned and ignored | 6:24
Long-term health effects | 6:57
Justice for the Radium Girls... eventually | 7:34
Buried in lead-lined coffins | 8:23
The building remained poisonous | 9:32

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