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[–] SoonaPaana 8 points 10 months ago (7 children)

This is a very very cool graphic. Really highlights that MSG is needlessly antagonized. Also so weird to see sarin and nicotine next to each other.

Marketing is a bitch.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Tylenol is easier to overdose on than NSAIDs. I really don't think this guide is accurate. I'm really questioning the placement of cocaine and especially ketamine. Vitamin D from the sun? Lethal? I don't believe black widows are that venomous, either. How are they even measuring this? Cocaine will give you a heart attack, Tylenol will shut down your liver, venom acts like an infection... are they basing lethal dose on how much it takes to cause some kind of fatal reaction, or under a controlled administration with a defined "fatal dose" based on a specific measurement, like damage to a human cell?

[–] Pipoca 8 points 10 months ago

LD50 is usually determined using rodent studies. How much Vitamin D causes an overdose in half of a population of mice?

The dose makes the poison.

And with drug safety, in practice LD50 is less important than how close a therapeutic dose is to a lethal one. If a drug takes 2g/kg to kill you but you need 1g/kg to work, that's way more dangerous than one that takes .02g/kg to kill you but only needs .0002g/kg to work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yes, that's basically how it works, see my other comment

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I can ingest nearly 10g of uranium and not die?

Interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No love for the Puffer fish. 🐡

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

It really takes that much gasoline to be lethal? You mean to tell me less THC is needed to kill you than drinking gasoline? It's almost 10 times as much!

I am incredulous.

[–] Buffaloaf 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I assume this is talking about pure gasoline. The stuff that you get out of the pump is anything but pure. It contains benzene, hexanes, and other really nasty chemicals that will kill you quickly and slowly (e.g. cancer)

[–] Thteven 7 points 10 months ago

Fuckin A, I only drink the good shit.

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[–] Harbinger01173430 4 points 10 months ago

Typical deathworlder win. Crazy earthlings who drink the solvent known as dihydrogen monoxide

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Huh, so a nuke is more poisonous than arsenic.

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