One of Merck’s senior analytical chemists has just been charged with recklessly endangering the lives of others near his home town of Warrington, PA. This all played out last December, when one of Richard O’Rourke’s colleagues noticed him pouring 219 grams of potassium cyanide he had picked up from the “poison cabinet” at Merck into … Continue reading Senior Merck chemist charged with risking catastrophe after pouring cyanide into Pennsylvania stormwater drain