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A fact from Charles S. Lieber appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 March 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Charles S. Lieber's baboon testing showed that cirrhosis is caused by alcohol, not malnutrition?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/March.

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early use of antibiotics in treating metabolic issues in the stomach
early noted bacteria in diseased stomachs, unable to get assistance diagnosing
baboon experiments on alcohol

Problem with the units edit

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Dear All;

I'm too lazy to go look up the reference to see what it should be, but there is a problem in the dosage of the alcohol to the baboons. The current pages says "about 750 millilitres (0.026 oz)", which unfortunately gets the unit conversion off by a factor of 1000. 750 ml is about 26 oz, and 0.026 oz is about .750 ml or 750 microliters. Neither sounds right to me -- baboons can really take a drink if they can take a whole bottle of EverClear a day without dieing right off, or are really drinking lightweights if they can't even handle a single drink each day.

But like I said, I'm too lazy to check the primary source.

Spudbeach (talk) 03:04, 22 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

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