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Daily MOS: Porton Down & Ethics in Experimentation

February 28, 2021 SciBabe 4

A more accurate name would be “Porton Down: we killed so many bunnies it got weird.”

Daily MOS: Mercury Poisoning, the Disease by Three Names.

February 13, 2021 SciBabe 1

So now Danbury, Connecticut is known for a sewage treatment plant named after John Oliver and widespread mercury poisoning.

Daily MOS: The Promise and Barbarism of Twilight Sleep

February 11, 2021 SciBabe 1

We’ve done some lunacy to avoid pain in childbirth. Have you heard what they did in the early part of the 20th century? They just got women in labor super fucking high.

Daily MOS: na na na na na na na na BAT BOMBS

February 6, 2021 SciBabe 3

Napalm Loaded Hibernating Mexican Free-Tailed Bats. Now that’s my goddamn band name.

Daily MOS: The Mildly Radioactive Banana

February 2, 2021 SciBabe 2

But you’d have to be pretty damn determined to get radiation poisoning from a banana.

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