In 1986, decades after the Minamata disaster, workers still discarded mercury-tainted fish from the bay. By Joshua SokolThe city of Minamata, Japan, is dotted with monuments commemorating victims of an industrial mass poisoning decades ago.

High in the hills, a small stone memorial honors other deaths—of cats sacrificed in secret to science. Now, after restudying the remains of one of those cats, a team of scientists is arguing, controversially, that the long-standing explanation for the tragedy is wrong.No one questions the root cause of the disaster, which at minimum poisoned more than 2000 people: mercury in a chemical factory’s wastewater that was dumped into Minamata Bay and taken up by seafood eaten by fishermen and their families.

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