#disregarding lab safety and falling victim to dumb impulses regarding samples is a TIME HONORED TRADITION

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Drinking bacteriophages is the kind of basic research that we just don't do anymore. Why does the SDS for H2SO4 have its flavor listed? How was saccharin discovered? Desipramine exists because a couple of dudes took some imipramine and analyzed their piss afterwards. Many such cases! "But it's carcinogenic" "What if it kills you" "Why are you smoking a cigarette with unwashed hands in a lab full of flammable solvents" "This substance is caustic enough to make my skin burn, I shouldn't mouth-pipette it" You all are cowards.

This is real good lab practice, what you're doing. I wonder, would it be more efficient to culture viruses in shot glasses? Not because it's easier to knock growth medium back out of a shot glass, because no one has bothered to even check.

o7, keep it up

You. I respect you and you alone.