• SoonaPaana@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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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        9 months ago

        I wonder how they came up with the LD50 of all those materials, like THC and LSD. Is this based on theoretical calculation, in vitro tests, or on a (assumably) very small sample of known deaths?

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          9 months ago

          Step 1: Feed/Inject mutliple rat populations with different concentrations
          Step 2: See how many die.
          Step 3: The concentration which causes 50% of the population to die is the LD50

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            9 months ago

            While I was thinking you were yet another user, you were a rat the whole time! Wait, we are all rats!

            Jokes aside, animal testing as a data source seems reasonable to me. Thanks