Recent Komodo postings of Dr. Bryan Fry

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Bryan recently posted these to his facebook, worth sharing. enjoy.

UQ scientist Bryan Fry shows komodo dragon saliva not as toxic as believed | The Courier-Mail

Our study to see if there was any sort of proliferation of bacteria in komodo dragon mouths (which there would have to be if they were using it as a weapon) was pure science. Just curiousity about something put forth as gospel, but with a conspicuous lack of supporting evidence. But wow did we open a political shitstorm. We had people actively trying to block it. Zoos that were not just uncooperative, but were ringing other zoos to tell them not to participate in the study. Guess they were really attached to the fairy tale!! Luckily a couple zoos were actually interested in evidence based science and were super agreeable about participating in the study. The vets and staff at the LA Zoo, Honolulu and Houston were awesome.