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164 - Thomas Midgley Jr.: The most destructive human in the history of the Universe
January 14th, 2021 | 1 hr 45 mins
america history, automotive, cars, chemist, chemistry, climate change, comedy, drinking, environmental, gas, global warming, history, idiot, inventor, nerd, podcast, research, tech
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?