oppenheimer rule

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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!

Seems historically accurate given the level of radiation exposure a lot of the nuclear scientists got

In his defense, he said he's only good at theory and had others do the lab stuff

Two of the people in that tower with him died from fucking about with plutonium in the lab