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Northumbria Uni fined £400K after boffin's bad math gives students a near-killer caffeine high

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To clarify the term Lethal Dose...

I worked it out the other day based on an average UK male body mass of 84kg and an LD50 of 200 milligrams per kilogram. It comes out at 16.8g

LD50 is the level at which half of the test subjects died. So these two are bloody lucky indeed, having taken nearly double that. What are the odds?

Sixteen to one, if my maths & stats is any good.

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