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 progressJohnny Depp Claims He Is Being Boycotted By Hollywood, Worries About ‘Minamata’ ReleaseLessons learned from previous environmental health crises: Narratives of patients with Minamata disease in TV documentaries as the main media outletMinamata diseaseMinamata DiseaseMINAMATA`S HEROESMysterious chemical found in dead cat’s brain reopens debate over mercury poisoning disasterMinamata disease compensation agreements of 1959Something in the Water: Life after Mercury PoisoningThe Minamata Disaster and the Disease That FollowedThe Minamata Disaster and the True Costs of Japanese Modernization