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Comment by vitno | Hacker News Reader

The title of this article is entirely misleading based upon what the content is.

This is actually an article that can be summed up as "LD50 results for venom are irrelevant, some animals (e.g. hedgehogs) have resistance to venom that could kill [insert large number] mice. That's why the venom is so potent"

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That and the article asks the question 3 times and then immediately digress into yet another repetitive example of why the question is so important.

If someone can suggest a title that's 80 chars or less and accurately represents the article, we can change it.

The offender is the original article author, not the HN entry. The former goes on and on piling fluff until you want to hit him in the head with a hammer. Then you see the actual content can be summarized in a single phrase.

"Why do some animals have venoms that are more lethal than they apparently need"

The original title is really quite bunk "can not use them?" What? That's just wrong.

The whole article is kinda stupid anyway, the answer to the question is: So they can use them on animals that are resistant to the venom.

There isn't much else in the article, you may want to just kill the story as a waste of readers time.

Ok, we'll use your suggestion. Thanks!

The story has been flagged off the front page. We'll probably leave it at that.

The biggest problem with this title is not that it's inaccurate, it's that it's also misleading. I clicked on this article expecting to read about animals whose venom is so toxic that they would actually injure themselves if they tried to use it ("...so lethal they cannot use them").

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