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What a fantastic find of an article! It's not every day that I get to read about a microbe so deadly that a small jar would be enough to kill all of humanity,
by cs702 5y ago
What a fantastic find of an article!
It's not every day that I get to read about a microbe so deadly that a small jar would be enough to kill all of humanity, so difficult to weaponize that no nation or group has ever been able to build weapons with it, so important to our modern food system that it has altered the taste of almost every packaged food we eat, and so widely used for cosmetic facial procedures that everyone everywhere knows its commercial name (Botox).
The title doesn't do justice to the article.
- ddek 5y ago> Doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo made a few attempts to deploy it at US military bases in the 1980s, but were so shambolically unsuccessful that their attacks went unnoticed by authorities. Is a wonderful sentence.
- brutusborn 5y agoMy favourite is the last line of this passage: > It is of course deeply ironic that many celebrities who publicly advocated a clean living, chemical-free lifestyle, were also early adopters of a treatment that involves injecting the deadliest substance on earth into your face (looking at you, Paltrow). If any of them were surprised at this seeming paradox, they certainly didn’t show it.
- stavros 5y agoI love him for that sentence.
- Chris2048 5y agoIt'd be interesting to know why it's so difficult to weaponize. Is the caveat that the toxin is only so deadly once in the bloodstream, but is otherwise hard to get there?