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Red Mercury, Part 2

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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The Red Mercury Hoax

Athletic Greens is giving you a free one-year supply of vitamin D and five free travel packs with your first purchase. The most straightforward evidence that red mercury is a hoax comes from the many, many red mercury hoaxes that have dribbled out into the public record over the decades. There have been red mercury busts in every part of the occupied world, from Ethiopia to North Korea. Most of it has been confiscated on normal post-Soviet breakup smuggling routes from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, and onto Western Europe, Germany, France, even Portugal.

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