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Hi NCPC! I read a book on poison response and the vast majority of treatments seem to be ingesting medical grade activated charcoal. In a pinch, if I cut open a water filter filled with activated charcoal and took the same amount, could it be used as a somewhat effective treatment? (This is not an endorsement for people eating Brita filter charcoal instead of going to the hospital, just in a case where you're in the wilderness a few hundred miles away from civilization and just so happen to have a Brita)

I stopped listening to Radiolab after this episode. Krulwich was incredibly callous in that interview. The interviewee's claims of racism are unfounded (in her blog post responding to the apologies), but Jad and Krulwich tried to force what they believed on the Hmong survivor of the war. You don't do that kind of shit, especially with such little evidence proving one side or the other. On one side you have the Harvard scientist testing alleged material from over 30 years ago, and on the other you have a first-hand account from the war. Neither I would say are conclusive, and yet they seemed adamant that they were correct at the end. I also thought the way they just said the yellow rain was obviously from bees in front of someone who grew up and lived in the area for years was incredibly dismissive.

You don't grill survivors of atrocities on what I would call nitpicking details from their deeply traumatic experience. You wouldn't grill holocaust survivors on how exactly the Nazi's butchered their friends and family, you wouldn't grill a 9-11 survivor who lost his co-workers on where a fire was on a specific building , and you shouldn't grill a Vietnam War victim who lost his village on if a specific type of chemical was used on the Hmong people.

Hi Rod! What's your favorite California dive site, and also your favorite site outside of Cali to dive? And thanks for making that shoutout video a while back with Kelli S. for me.

Agreed, each site does have their own ecosystem plus you never know what's going to be at a site, and without the awesome people I wouldn't be going out as much as I am now. I got trained in San Diego and have been getting out into the water practically every week, and have seen the Roddenberry dive stickers on more than a few boats.

Interesting, and thanks for the response!