Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa

Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 13, 2007 @08:58PM from the rhymes-with-fugu dept.

SoyChemist writes "Ciguatoxin causes bizarre neurological symptoms including temperature reversal, a burning sensation, and an imaginary feeling of loose teeth. It is produced by algae and accumulates in the fatty flesh of tropical fish. While traveling to the tropics, a man from England ate some bad seafood that contained the unusual poison. His story, and the tale of some unfortunate sailors of an earlier age who suffered the same affliction, appeared in the current issue of Practical Neurology and was summarized on the Wired Science Blog. Both the Wired blog and the peer-reviewed journal neglected to mention that the potent neurotoxin has been made from scratch by organic chemists."

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Poison is bad... by psychicsword · 2007-10-13 21:16 · Score: 0, Redundant

So since when is poison causing bodily harm and unusual feeling news?
Umm...Psychoactive drugs? by zrobotics · 2007-10-13 22:39 · Score: -1, Redundant

Okay, so I realise that this has the potential to be a new kind of drug (LSD, anyone), but what in the name of God is this doing on the front page of Slashdot. This isn't "News for Nerds", this is news for the guy who sells you pot.

OOOOh...so if I eat this fish, I'll feel like I have loose teeth...F****IN RAGE!!. It's an old meme, but seriously, slow news day, or what?