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[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

Wow, that was a wild read. I kept going to see if the man responsible for Radithor would get his after finding out it made him rich.

Tap for spoilerNo legal justice but ...

Bailey died of bladder cancer ... his body was exhumed nearly 20 years later, it was ... "ravaged by radiation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._A._Bailey#Death

I guess it's a good example of Hanlon's razor, "Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"