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    9 months ago

    It is somewhat misleading to group poisons, radioactive isotopes and viruses

    Far as I can tell there aren’t any viruses in there? There’s a few bacterial toxins, but they’re… well, toxins.

    Also, the grouping isn’t misleading. Not only is eg. plutonium fairly toxic (because it’s a heavy metal) in addition to giving off ionizing radiation, but calculating an LD50 for something doesn’t require it to be toxic, just that some dose of it kills. There’s some µg/kg ingested (or inhaled or whatever) dose of polonium that will kill 50% of a study animal population dead, regardless of what the mechanism that kills them actually is