Asbestos Lawyer Reacts to Veritasium on Asbestos

Recently, @veritasium released an in-depth look at the asbestos story: youtube.com/watch?v=cMx139eTxoc

Join me on a live watch-through. We'll be adding adding contextual information where we can and offering corrections on things they may have missed.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - 9/11: Close-up look at the asbestos used in World Trade Center
02:06 - Asbestos in Ancient Rome
02:17 - Ancient Rome: Asbestos Wick (youtube.com/watch?v=jFv-E3qbqOs)
03:13 - Chrysotile asbestos curls
05:22 - Clarification on when Henry Ward Johns started experimenting with Asbestos
07:31 - The word "asbestos"
07:49 - Asbestos 101: Origins of the asbestos (youtu.be/-7bjGRQqmJo?si=pnxhnArs84zNLf7e&t=866)
08:50 - Surprising uses for asbestos
08:53 - Ipana Toothpaste (youtube.com/watch?v=3vZLkQed5Sw)
09:00 - Asbestos Snow (youtube.com/watch?v=3xV0_z0yD2E)
10:20 - Asbestos Man and Asbestos Lady (youtube.com/watch?v=FYdYhhRL_cA)
10:46 - Detailed look at amosite asbestos
11:50 - Asbestos cement was the largest use of asbestos
12:37 - Tensile Strength of Asbestos
13:32 - Kent Micronite Asbestos Filters
14:59 - Asbestos Artifacts: Asbestos Cigarettes (youtube.com/watch?v=yovW24AqbHM)
16:01 - UNARCO meets with Johns-Manville on how to deal with workers getting sick
17:46 - Comparing wartime casualties: soldiers vs asbestos workers
18:57 - Asbestos filtration
19:51 - Asbestos Syringe (youtube.com/watch?v=q8ChkvCJ-gA)
20:25 - Asbestos found in the lungs of babies
21:27 - Sumner Simpson papers blow open asbestos case
22:34 - Asbestos Coverup: Asbestos 101 - Part Four (youtube.com/watch?v=-bHwTPgEFDg)
24:09 - Nazi Germany knew asbestos caused health problems in the 1940s
25:05 - Clarification: Vandiver Brown said the famous line: "Yes, we save a lot of money that way."
26:04 - Asbestos Cover-Up came before Big Tobacco
26:43 - CEO of Johns-Manville is a LIAR
27:36 - Johns-Manville is still in business to this day, in spite of its bankruptcy
28:47 - W. R. Grace made Zonolite that purposefully had asbestos in it
29:43 - You can almost always find asbestos
30:16 - Dusted in Vegas (youtube.com/watch?v=k1aMpEHTLkI)
32:23 - Government was also incentivized to continue the asbestos cover-up
33:59 - Only specific masks protect from asbestos
34:43 - Crocidolite is also known as "blue asbestos" but in Vegas, they found actinolite
35:41 - Asbestiform vs non-asbestiform
36:29 - Asbestos fluffers
37:35 - India asbestos usage
39:20 - We never learn the asbestos lesson. It's always about money.
40:17 - My family members also died of asbestos-related cancers
41:27 - Final thoughts
41:48 - Asbestos has a latency period of many decades
42:11 - Asbestos manufacturers used the latency period to perpetuate their coverup
42:55 - Most building built before 1980 likely have asbestos

Feel free to leave questions, comments, or clarifications in the comments and we'll respond as quickly as we can. This is a great moment to continue the conversation around asbestos!