Chris McCandless with Blair Braverman
You're Wrong About
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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