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their_own_inventions Wikipedia, I love you. Also, one inventor so killed was a Thomas Midgley, Jr., who managed to invent both leaded petrol and CFCs. (Although the effects of CFCs on the atmosphere weren’t known until well after his death, he does seem to have been involved in suppressing information about how workers were harmed by working with lead.) 20:37
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