March 8, 2016

Chemical companies are hiding toxic evidence under “trade secret” clause, as much as government suppresses exotic technologies under “national security” justification.

The secrecy is replete all throughout the system, i.e. government, business, school system, media and the medical system. Secrecy is said to be a necessary tool in the conduct of business in order to protect the viability of a company.

The problem is: that same scheme which allows the companies to advance and compete actively within a given industry is also harming the end-users of their products by allowing the introduction of dangerous substance that most of the time are life threatening.

This is just one of so many illustrations suggesting that unregulated capitalism is far more dangerous than standing armies. The capacity to buy off the regulators will make government useless which should push the people to take direct action, or perish.
How DuPont Concealed the Dangers of the New Teflon Toxin

Sharon Lerner✉sharon.lerner@​theintercept.comt@fastlerner

MARK STRYNAR AND Andrew Lindstrom walked down the muddy bank of the Cape Fear River toward the water, sampling equipment in hand. It was the summer of 2012, and the scientists, who both work for the Environmental Protection Agency, were taking the first steps in what would be more than two years of detective work. The Cape Fear winds its way for over 200 miles through North Carolina before flowing into the Atlantic, but Strynar and Lindstrom were focused on a 20-mile stretch that runs from a boat dock outside Fayetteville south to the little town of Tar Heel. About halfway between the two points, on the western bank of the river, sits a large plant built by DuPont.

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