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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