✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ on Nostr: you know, the most concerning bit about Karen Wetterhahn's dimethylmercury exposure ...

you know, the most concerning bit about Karen Wetterhahn's dimethylmercury exposure and subsequent death isn't that it was a drop or two that went through a glove

it was that Karen was a world-class expert specializing in toxic metal chemistry and its effects on living beings, and she followed every single safety requirement of handling dimethylmercury