Everybody Blamed the Hydrogen Peroxide... But What Did It Really Do to Trump's Reflecting Pool?

Send us Fan Mail When the National Park Service added hydrogen peroxide to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the internet immediately decided it had found the culprit behind the peeling coating. But science doesn't work that way. In this episode, Rudy Stankowitz takes a research-first approach to one of the most discussed pool stories of the year. Instead of asking whether hydrogen peroxide caused a coating failure, he asks a different question: Why was hydrogen peroxide chosen in the f...