I bet the original story was something like 'researchers have found correlation between consumption of a certain protein, found in some mushrooms, and resistance to some forms of cancer'= EAT MUSHROOMS YOU WON'T DIE
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zoldergoose,
Mon 30 Nov 2009, 12:53,
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something like thatbut it was more along the lines of "well, eating them won't actually give you cancer, so that's good, right?"
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet,
Mon 30 Nov 2009, 12:54,
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