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Extrapolations Technically, going from "megadose is lethal" to "smaller doses are harmful" is an interpolation, not an extrapolation.

• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Only if an even smaller dose was tested too.
  • petertodd 10y ago
    Well, technically anyone with a pet mouse is doing the experiment "Does a dose of ~0ppm of cyanide/arsenic/etc. kill mice?" :)
    • AstralStorm 10y ago
      That is called a control group. You need to actually have a formal one and big enough too. It has to be kept in as similar conditions as the group under treatment and have genetically similar makeup. Most importantly, the composition of both groups and the conditions the experiment is ran under should be rigorously described.
    • TheCoelacanth 10y ago
      It does, but it seems to be very slow acting.
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• ArkyBeagle 10y ago
  The dose is the poison.
• marcosdumay 10y ago
  There are infinite interpolation possibilities, one decides it is linear by extrapolation.