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Recipe talk:Insanity

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Correlation ≠ Causality[edit]

You'd have to be insane to drink this. That doesn't mean it causes insanity. In particular, mercury is absorbed very slowly so the duration of exposure is more important than the quantity. Lead is toxic and has good chance of killing you before you have a chance to go insane; on the other hand, its bioavailability in the metallic form is quite poor. If it's insanity you're after, what's wrong with the good old-fashioned approach of megadoses of LSD? --60.36.179.50 (talk) 06:35, 15 March 2011 (UTC)