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Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: To clarify the term Lethal Dose...

"I expect these two will now form part of those figures."

On the assumption that they'd have died without swift medical intervention, presumably they will provide an upper bound on the true figure. Ironically, they will be the kind of "back-of-the-envelope" figure of which these researchers were so tragically unaware.

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