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“LSD comes from bacteria.” This is wrong. LSD is synthesized from ergot, a fungus that grows on rye. An oversight like this throws the authors entire credibi
by tranchms 8y ago
“LSD comes from bacteria.”
This is wrong.
LSD is synthesized from ergot, a fungus that grows on rye.
An oversight like this throws the authors entire credibility into question. Know your subject matter.
- merinowool 8y agoI wonder if all media participate in such disinformation on purpose...
- ben_w 8y agoNo need to assume malice. If someone got 90% in an essay they’d be top of the class, from what I remember at school. What would journalists score if tested the same way?
- tdb7893 8y agoMost of the mistakes are pretty simple errors and with how many news articles are printed each day it would be weird not to have errors like this (also it's essentially impossible hundreds of journalists could be communicating with each other in some grand conspiracy, that would unravel insanely fast). It's the same as most software bugs are legitimate errors, there have been purposeful ones but most aren't.
- merinowool 8y agoIn some countries media are licensed, so they can't publish things against guidelines. They risk losing their license also it is easy to label such leak as conspiracy theory (term coined by the CIA by the way)
- sannee 8y agoI now wonder if there are any psychoactives produced by bacteria. Or how hard would it be to transfer some metabolic pathway to get drug-producing bacteria (DMT biosynthesis seems pretty simple, just two proteins...).
- malmsteen 8y agowhatever though? we have thousand of bacterias in the body ad at the end of the process LSD is just a molecule.
- malmsteen 8y agowhy the downvotes ? there's more bacteria in milk than there will ever be in any drug im just saying op's point make no sense.
- cecilpl2 8y agoIt most certainly does not. I'd hazard that 80% of the population doesn't even know the difference between bacteria and fungus. They are both single-celled organisms and for most people, biology class was a long time ago. It's equivalent to a terminology simplification that doesn't take away from the central point of the article.
- JackCh 8y ago> "I'd hazard that 80% of the population doesn't even know the difference between bacteria and fungus." Seriously? They teach this in 5th or 6th grade science classes in American public schools. I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge that mushrooms are fungus but not bacteria.