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This is nothing new, the Laetrile crowd has never gone away. A good rule of thumb is that a good crackpot idea never dies, it just finds fewer adherents over ti
by Aelinsaar 10y ago
This is nothing new, the Laetrile crowd has never gone away. A good rule of thumb is that a good crackpot idea never dies, it just finds fewer adherents over time.
- niftich 10y agoThis happens occasionally, like in 1993 [1] and 1998 [2]. The labeling seems off, though. 'Sweet' varieties stonefruits (almonds, apricots, plums, peaches, etc) are supposed to have small amounts of cyanide, while 'bitter' varieties are supposed to have unsafe amount amounts. Is the issue here the volume of an entire bag's worth? [1] http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/26/nyregion/imported-bitter-apricot-pits-recalled-as-cyanide-hazard.html http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/26/nyregion/imported-bitter-a... [2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064498700770 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064498...
- cwingrav 10y agoThe post covers this and does the math. 'Sweet' varieties do have less, but still enough that eating the bag would be a lethal dose to the author of the article.