164 - Thomas Midgley Jr.: The most destructive human in the history of the Universe

When you think of the world's most dangerous person, who do you think of? Genghis Khan? Stalin? Hitler?! Try a gas-huffing, pseudo-chemist that gave an entire generation lead poisoning and singlehandedly melted a hole in the atmosphere. Midgley created a

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Roast Mortem Cast

Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.

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When you think of the world's most dangerous person, who do you
think of? Genghis Khan? Stalin? Hitler?! Try a gas-huffing,
pseudo-chemist that gave an entire generation lead poisoning and
singlehandedly melted a hole in the atmosphere. Midgley created a
ecological Frankenstein's monster, but did his smooth-brained
science cause his undoing?