In an era when people were popping quaaludes like m&ms, this promised to be a drug that didn’t get you high and let you sleep through whatever was so stressful about the 1950s. It was so absurdly non-toxic they couldn’t find a dose that would kill a rat.
When Chris McCandless stumbled into the Alaskan wilderness alone with few skills as an outdoorsman, and his body was found wasting away, the answer seemed obvious. It wasn’t.
Suggesting that cholera spread via sewage earned him a giant ‘you know nothing John Snow,’ because this meant it wasn’t the fault of the poor with all their immoral ungodly behaviors that obviously made them poor. And nobody wanted that, because taking responsibility for fucking up lives of poor people with the water supply is so Flint 2014.
There are some chemicals on this Earth that no amount of riches would convince me to work with. ClF3 reacts to almost everything, and the way to fix it once you have an accident? Experts recommend running shoes.
Since digestion is a process that takes hours to truly observe, it remained largely a mystery until a bullet intended for a duck accidentally split open Alexis St. Martin.
A mining company in western Russia sells asbestos branded with Donald Trump’s face. All I’m asking is… why are you still selling asbestos?
In the early twentieth century, radiation was understood about as well as 5G is understood by conspiracy theorists today. How were we supposed to know that mysterious glowy things signaled danger decades before the modern horror movie?
Hennig Brand was the first person in modern times to discover an element. It just took one torrentially putrefied basement and a mid-sized lake of wee.
At the end of WWII, we had the unused heart of a nuclear bomb sitting around waiting to fuck shit up. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory couldn’t be expected to just leave it alone. It was so shiny. So new. So full of untapped data.
It’s been hard to get people to take some common sense advice during this pandemic, but hand washing was an easy one to get people on board with. The first guy who said “hey maybe wash your hands when doctoring” was beaten to death in an insane asylum.
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