Some industry insiders publicly dissented from concealment of carcinogen hazards

Evidence

Amid these exonerative machinations, there were some acts of principled objection. Zeb G. Bell of PPG Industries argued that employees should be fully informed about the carcinogenic properties of the materials they were handling and warned about the inadequacy of the odor threshold: I feel that transmittal of information to employees of the potential carcinogenic properties of vinylidene chloride should not be done on a low-key basis if we expect them to respect and avoid breathing vapors as specified in your memo… . It should be emphasized that the odor threshold for VCDM is grossly inadequate in warning employees of the presence of VDCM. (Bell, 1974) He also vetoed erroneous claims in a vinyl chloride video script: “I think you are stretching the credibility that food wrap (meaning saran [ sic] wrap) has done as much for public health as penicillin. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1789

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1789
• XREF: connects to: Withholding chemical data from exposed communities weakens their remedies — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 161