It’s only been relatively recently that people in labs stopped sucking cancer causing and poisonous chemicals out of containers with their mouths on a pipette.
Oh, so this is why they are so insistent in lab that people don’t use a pipette with their mouths. I thought it was mostly a meme!
No, mouth pipetting is a real thing
How do you know it’s done if you can’t get a taste?
Seems historically accurate given the level of radiation exposure a lot of the nuclear scientists got
Scientists used to “taste” new chemical compounds. This is extremely accurate
That’s basically how LSD got discovered
Well he’s wearing a lab coat, so he’s already better than 99% of scientists.
In his defense, he said he’s only good at theory and had others do the lab stuff
Have you heard of the demon core yet? https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2593:_Deviled_Eggs
Two of the people in that tower with him died from fucking about with plutonium in the lab
