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rman666
Sorry, but they are full of shit.
[dead] wadavis
Made you check!8-))

What a sucker! Knife of shite! Sounds like a very baaaad movie! Bwaaaahaaaah!!

vikramkr
somehow i doubt the actual wade davis is on HN, so based on your username, I think people are missing a not terrible joke here by downvoting you.
et2o
Candidate for an Ignobel prize. Could have used some figures
vikramkr
They're one of the winners this year, I assume that's why this post was made.
kentbrew
Nothing is over until Mythbusters says it is. Picturing in my mind right now a guillotine with a fifty-pound blade made of human shit frozen in liquid nitrogen ... I bet it would stand up to a single impact just fine. And if it didn't? It would still be pretty awesome.
vikramkr
I actually really appreciate this research - this is proper Mythbusters type stuff, looking at debunking an urban legend. Also, considering that this is an urban legend originated and propagated by an anthropologist also apparebtly known for his work with psychotropic plants[0], who also already has had an incident of dubious claims bring criticized, perhaps this is a good wakeup call to see how reliable Wade Davis' other findings are as well.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Davis_(anthropologist)