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Another example of breakthrough science coming from an unlikely source:
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alex 
@SpeakMouthWords
Replying to @AlecStapp
Great and encouraging news for this guy
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Oh, cool. Another awesome thing the Trump administration is probably going to defund:
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, DOE/US Department of Energy
Insane sentence: “On Sept. 12, 2001, crazed by the terrorist attack of the previous day and by the death of a friend a few days earlier, he let himself be bitten by two cobras.” What. The. Fuck.
Another good example of this
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@slurplebrained
Replying to @Paracelsus1092
Thinking of Bill Haast, who had been bitten by venomous snakes one hundred and seventy-two times while extracting their venom. He donated his blood to snake-bite victims when anti-venom wasn't available and lived to be one hundred years old en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haast
talk about skin in the game.
this man is continuing the tradition of old scientists, dudes that would operate on themselves and stitch themselves up.
King.
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"His wife was furious but he was angrier with himself. He vowed to become more methodical in his work"
“Productivity startup founded by product manager who was subjected to hundreds of cross-functional alignment meetings throughout their career…”
I am always shocked to discover how many people die each year of snake bites (as many as 100k?)
No matter how tough you are, you'll never be "I had deadly snakes bite me 200 times" tough.
An actual, literal badass. Maybe the only man qualified to live in Australia.
Says he started milking scorpion and snake venom "as a hobby"??
What I love about this is how they quote him giving what seems to be a very scientific, "I'm so glad I can contribute to science" type of speech, only to then explain how he literally started tweakin after 9/11 and let cobras bite him
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Fascinating
@fasc1nate
The True Story of Mithridates the Great, the Poison King historydefined.net/mithridates-po
That’s good news when I was a kid living in Arkansas I got bit by a copperhead. They gave me anti-venom derived from horses which I immediately got a allergic reaction to. Good times
“If you look at the breakthroughs in science, almost always they don’t come from the center of that profession. They come from the fringe.” — Allan Savory
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Mark Karake
@KarakeMark
“We are going to kill ourselves because of stupidity”
Bro is following ancient Indian practice of creating Poison Spy/Assassin! 
Can he patent his blood and get royalties?
It would be poetic and appropriate.
you're a scientist does this mean that if I keep letting spiders bite me I will eventually turn into Spider Woman
they were talking about this on the radio in my taxi and it sounded like a GTA radio story
Nobel prize for physiology and medicine not for the doctor but for this man right there
bro really said "i'll probably get back into it in the future" like it's table tennis or something.
absolute madlad.
My grandfather spoke briefly with him.
Thought he was going to end up a billionaire selling his blood one day… papa isn’t here, but that billion still might be happening.
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
-Isaac Asminov
He's done a great thing for humanity but I have so many questions. Why did he start? Has he been paid? Who encouraged him?
TIL that Westley really could have built up an immunity to Iocaine powder.
Interesting. His mind was set and he actually pulled it off it seems. Great post thank you
The line about his wife getting mad when he let two cobras bite him just killed me.
