link :
TheConversation.Com
… and there was a very interesting episode on NPR radio about a great man in this story :
Clair Cameron Patterson
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson
He Triumphs against corporations’ greed in the end 👍.
Corrupted.
Works both ways too.
As in power corrupts as does cancer.
This is exactly the right word, unfortunately, we see it use too often in this context : “Many people are corrupted by big profits”. … and because we got habituated, it’s not striking anymore as it should.