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In reply to the discussion: Why is this Hack Smiling? [View all]sheshe2
(96,991 posts)To recap: If you're a Kentucky Democrat and you don't answer a straight-forward question, you may as well take your name off the ballot, according to Beltway journalists. But if you're a Kentucky Republican and you do the same thing, it's mostly crickets from the same pundits.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/13/the-kentucky-senate-race-and-the-medias-double/201129
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Can frog pee cause warts?
his urban legend has been debunked so often and so consistently on the Internet, it is almost redundant to repeat it.
Here are just some of the sources - including many medical experts and frog experts.
National Geographic
"Warts are caused by a human virus, not frogs or toads," says dermatologist Jerry Litt. But the wartlike bumps behind a toad's ears can be dangerous. These parotoid glands contain a nasty poison that irritates the mouths of some predators and often the skin of humans. So toads may not cause warts, but they can cause other nasties. It's best not to handle these critterswarts and all!
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9504/can-frog-pee-cause-warts