Ricin: The Perfect Poison
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Source/Further reading:
This Podcast Will Kill You, episode on Ricin: thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2020/01/07/episode-41-r…
History of Ricin, and the castor plant: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6628454/
CDC Overview: emergency.cdc.gov/agent/ricin/facts.asp
Britannica overview: www.britannica.com/science/ricin
PopSci overview: www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/everything-…
Global Security, ricin as a bioweapon: www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/bio_ricin.htm
Mortality rates of ricin types (pdf): dhhr.wv.gov/oeps/disease/AtoZ/documents/ricin/rici…
Border Cave ricin: www.archaeology.org/issues/61-1301/features/267-to…
Markov assassination: edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/01/07/terror.poi…
2003 Ricin letters: archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/pressrel/press-rele…
2004 Ricin powder on Capitol Hill: edition.cnn.com/2004/US/02/03/senate.hazardous/
GQ, the crazy inside story on the 2013 Ricin Letters: www.gq.com/story/paul-kevin-curtis-elvis-impersona…
May 2013 ricin letters: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-who-mailed-rici…
コメント (21)
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It’s an honor to be placed on a watch list with you all.
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Jesse we need to open up a bean farm
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“ Good-Bye Lydia” 😎
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"3 milligrams, a mere tenth of a teaspoon" That is one tiny teaspoon 😂
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"Ricin: The Perfect Poison" You're god-damn right.
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"About as fun as a porcupine enema" fantastic line, I shall be adding this to my daily vocabulary
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All things aside, are we just going to ignore the fact that he called death “the ultimate side effect”? 😂
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Clicked this video hoping for Breaking Bad jokes. You guys did not disappoint.
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"Why did you think it's ricin? That's kind of specific" "I dunno man, maybe I like, saw a Simon Whistler video on it or something" - Jesse Pinkman in 2021
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Since Ricin is a protein it should be possible to make an antibody which binds to it and renders it non-toxic. Snake venoms are also proteins and their antidotes are also antibodies.
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Looks like I'll need a coffee grinder.
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It’s so cool that Walter White himself is making a video about ricin
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I’ve survied poisoning by castor beans my parents brought home from a vacation, my liver started to fail, vomit, white poop, fever.. doctors was sure I was going to die when they found the cause, whole family gathered to say goodbye - somehow I came through 🤷🏻♂️
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Awesome tutorial man, really appreciate it 👍
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I've known about castor plants for rodent control since I was very young. My maternal Grandparents would plant them every so many feet in the rows of root/tuber vegetables to kill voles and moles because they would eat the roots of the castor plant on their way to the turnips, carrots, rutabagas, etc. The plants were kept pruned to encourage more root growth, and cut down on seed pods.
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Ricin shine Lydia
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“This won’t be exhibit A in some federal case” “If you wanted to blanket a 100 km area...”
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What an enterpreneur Simon is. One chanel is about killers, another gives you all the advice you need to become one.
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Jequirity aka rosary peas are a similar story - they contain abrin, a poison with similar chemical properties and just as deadly if not moreso. What's more is that accidental poisoning is common - like castor beans, dried rosary peas are often drilled and used as beads (hence the name) and they are so poisonous that inhaling the dust from this process can cause serious illness or death because it is really absorbed by the lungs
