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Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by vogre »

As an active mushroom hunter (living in Russia), can confirm that it is likely. Mushroom gathering is extremely popular here, so experienced mushroom hunters are looking for second and third tier mushrooms, which are not that edible and have nasty mimics. So there is a moment when you confuse a champignon to a death cap, or Kuehneromyces mutabilis(summer stump mushroom) to Galerína margináta(deadly as the death mushroom), or parasol mushroom to fly agaric. Especially if you have bad eyes.

Source: mushrooms in my stomach that I gathered and ate today.

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by jprete »

okasaki wrote: post #110
stevezsa8 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, after a few years of Reddit, I started calling this kind of thing "internet advice"... ok for a discussion, but often contradictory or wrong (if I happen to know the topic in depth). For example, people give advice to grown men and women about how to proceed with their divorce or financial planning. Lots of up votes to lend credibility.... but if you dig into their history, the advice giver is 14 years old acco…

Yes, many people enjoy making things up, and they are good at it, and it's hard to detect. Reddit is particularly awful, but HN definitely isn't immune. The moderator's attitude to lying is generally very lame, eg here's someone admitting to habitually lying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838788 account still happily posting...

Thank you for pointing that out.

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by FridayNightTV »

stevezsa8 wrote: post #97
ChildOfChaos wrote: post #88

I love the internet. The first two comments for me: 1) "As an active mushroom hunter, this is extremely unlikely and uncommon, this sounds like foul play. 2) I regularly go foraging in this region, this is extremely common and nothing suspicious.

Yeah, after a few years of Reddit, I started calling this kind of thing "internet advice"... ok for a discussion, but often contradictory or wrong (if I happen to know the topic in depth). For example, people give advice to grown men and women about how to proceed with their divorce or financial planning. Lots of up votes to lend credibility.... but if you dig into their history, the advice giver is 14 years old acco…

> after a few years of Reddit, I started calling this kind of thing "internet advice"

Reddit "kama" is a popularity contest and has nothing to do with factual accuracy or genuine advice.

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by selimthegrim »

mordechai9000 wrote: post #73

I hope he wasn't eating gyromitra esculenta, the false morel. It contains a volatile toxic substance that metabolizes into monomethylhydrazine, a rocket propellent. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470580

Does it grow two stories high like in the Smurfs so he could have fallen off the top too?

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by FridayNightTV »

vogre wrote: post #121

As an active mushroom hunter (living in Russia), can confirm that it is likely. Mushroom gathering is extremely popular here, so experienced mushroom hunters are looking for second and third tier mushrooms, which are not that edible and have nasty mimics. So there is a moment when you confuse a champignon to a death cap, or Kuehneromyces mutabilis(summer stump mushroom) to Galerína margináta(deadly as the death mushr…

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Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by treprinum »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #68
andsoitis wrote: post #10

What is recommended reading for getting started with mushroom foraging? It seems like such an interesting activity.

"All that the Rain Promises and More" by David Arora is a good place to start. But I'd recommend that you go out with your local mycological society to make sure you're identifying them correctly before you try eating any. Me personally, I stick to 2 types of mushrooms: chantrelles and boletes. They're hard to misidentify in my area.

There is one boletus you should definitely avoid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubroboletus_satanas

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

okasaki wrote: post #110
stevezsa8 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, after a few years of Reddit, I started calling this kind of thing "internet advice"... ok for a discussion, but often contradictory or wrong (if I happen to know the topic in depth). For example, people give advice to grown men and women about how to proceed with their divorce or financial planning. Lots of up votes to lend credibility.... but if you dig into their history, the advice giver is 14 years old acco…

Yes, many people enjoy making things up, and they are good at it, and it's hard to detect. Reddit is particularly awful, but HN definitely isn't immune. The moderator's attitude to lying is generally very lame, eg here's someone admitting to habitually lying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838788 account still happily posting...

This is a very interesting post, thanks for sharing, and even if most are not doing it deliberately as this person is it confirms the issue with such sites.

Re: Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’

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Post by chemodax »

vogre wrote: post #121

As an active mushroom hunter (living in Russia), can confirm that it is likely. Mushroom gathering is extremely popular here, so experienced mushroom hunters are looking for second and third tier mushrooms, which are not that edible and have nasty mimics. So there is a moment when you confuse a champignon to a death cap, or Kuehneromyces mutabilis(summer stump mushroom) to Galerína margináta(deadly as the death mushr…

This is definitely propaganda comment: eating mushrooms in Russia is never considered as risky.
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