How a scientist went from hero to traitor in a US water crisis – podcast
He became a local hero until a new piece of research challenged the idea that children in Flint had been left permanently brain damaged by the crisis.
When the water in Flint, Michigan, became contaminated with dangerous levels of lead, Dr Siddhartha Roy, then a third year PhD student, was part of the team of scientists who publicly contradicted state and federal claims that it was safe.
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