Stop Your Laughing: Minamata Disease

This week, we don our emotional bat dresses, there's an alligator in someone's pants, a corporation is totally upstanding, murderous sludge gets upcycled, fishermen storm a factory, a lot of people die, and we explore possible alternate timelines.

Content warnings: maltreatment of alligators, neurological symptoms in animals, eating eels, serious illness/possible death of five year old child, CNS disease, experimentation on cats, miscarriage, stillbirth, infant deformities, community shunning, invasive medical exam.

Links:
Episode 75 Mercury: The cost of progress
Johnny Depp Claims He Is Being Boycotted By Hollywood, Worries About ‘Minamata’ Release
Lessons learned from previous environmental health crises: Narratives of patients with
Minamata disease in TV documentaries as the main media outlet
Minamata disease
Minamata Disease
MINAMATA`S HEROES
Mysterious chemical found in dead cat’s brain reopens debate over mercury poisoning disaster
Minamata disease compensation agreements of 1959
Something in the Water: Life after Mercury Poisoning
The Minamata Disaster and the Disease That Followed
The Minamata Disaster and the True Costs of Japanese Modernization