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Chris McCandless with Blair Braverman

You're Wrong About

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ODAP Is Not in the Seeds

Chris Macanless died after eating a wild potato that his guidebook said was safe. Crack hour says the discussion of why he died had become a proxy for whether he deserved it or not. He finds a study from 1960 about a toxic amino acid called lcanovine, which would absolutely have led to serious symptoms including progressive weakness.

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