It's not that I disbelieve this guy, it's just that part of the scientific method is the review and collaboration of one's findings by further study by other people. Until then, I hesitate (after all of these centuries of being kept as pets by hundreds of thousands of people) to believe that "the venom of a pet rat snake contains a neurotoxin as potent as that of a cobra."

     By the way, the article perpetuates a common misnomer that's thrown around by many reporters—and even some scientists—who can't be bothered to use a dictionary. The substance that one injects to offset snake venom is not antivenom, it's antivenin.

 

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• Interesting Scientific Study - dawnrenee2000, Tue Oct 3 08:26:45 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - johninbs, Tue Oct 3 11:49:10 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - dawnrenee2000, Tue Oct 3 11:57:43 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - wink0083, Tue Oct 3 14:43:50 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - dawnrenee2000, Tue Oct 3 16:29:42 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - phwyvern, Tue Oct 3 18:41:57 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - Rivets55, Tue Oct 3 19:06:50 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - phwyvern, Tue Oct 3 18:46:32 2006
• Been there, done that... - garweft, Wed Oct 4 17:50:05 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - juicyb, Tue Oct 3 21:34:26 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - Foreman, Wed Oct 4 07:46:56 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - Foreman, Wed Oct 4 07:53:53 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - ratsnakehaven, Wed Oct 4 12:17:34 2006
• Venom Glands - Rivets55, Wed Oct 4 13:34:00 2006
• I wouldn't worry about butchered snakes - garweft, Wed Oct 4 17:44:42 2006
• RE: Interesting Scientific Study - phiber_optikx, Thu Oct 5 12:52:25 2006
• Who knew....Were HOT keepers...LOL - garweft, Wed Oct 4 17:34:50 2006
• RE: Who knew....Were HOT keepers...LOL - Foreman, Thu Oct 5 06:49:52 2006
• Well... maybe. - odyssey, Thu Oct 5 10:07:19 2006