Wormser's position was insupportable. By the 1950s, the lead and paint industries both acknowledged that their products were poisoning children, and their defense took a new turn. It makes no difference that it is essentially a problem of slums, a public welfare problem. In short, lead poisoning is the parents' fault. More next week.
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