..."She was so young!"
She was 89.
Many of us young folks had a hard time resisting side splitting laughter.
I think these particular cases give lie to the made up "science" of that moron Ralph Nader, who declared, having absolutely no knowledge of science or no data to support his garbage remark, that "Plutonium is the most toxic substance known!"
The urban myth has been around for a long time; it's an ignorant statement, but some people take it seriously.
Plutonium is both a radiological and chemo toxic agent, but it's nowhere near the most toxic substance known.
I would note that although microcystin LR has an LD50 of around 7 micrograms for a 70 kg human being, the water supply of an entire city, Toledo, was contaminated with it because people are afraid of plutonium. That contamination was, in part, a subject of climate change.
I believe that one of the people who took this "plutonium is the most dangerous stuff ever" nonsense seriously was the scientist Michio Kaku, who authored some mass ignorance trying to stop the Cassini mission, which he argued could potentially kill everyone on earth.
He has a cool haircut, and for some reason is very widely exposed among popular science types who get most of their science by watching television, but where nuclear issues are concerned, he's a complete and total idiot.
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