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[-] Szymon@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 year ago

It's only been relatively recently that people in labs stopped sucking cancer causing and poisonous chemicals out of containers with their mouths on a pipette.

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Oh, so this is why they are so insistent in lab that people don't use a pipette with their mouths. I thought it was mostly a meme!

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

No, mouth pipetting is a real thing

How do you know it's done if you can't get a taste?

[-] lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

Seems historically accurate given the level of radiation exposure a lot of the nuclear scientists got

[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scientists used to "taste" new chemical compounds. This is extremely accurate

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

That's basically how LSD got discovered

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Well he's wearing a lab coat, so he's already better than 99% of scientists.

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago

In his defense, he said he's only good at theory and had others do the lab stuff

[-] Someboynumber5reborn@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Oopsenhiemer

[-] Speiser0@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago
[-] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Two of the people in that tower with him died from fucking about with plutonium in the lab

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