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Re:Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awai... by Jade_Jet on Saturday August 18, 2018 @07:25PM (#17791450)
http://web.uconn.edu/mcbstaff/graf/Medical.html

Leeches actually are valid medical science. There just were not better alternatives at the time, and they sometimes can still be used today.

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Re:Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awai... by mrec on Saturday August 18, 2018 @07:45PM (#17791562)
Blocked for me.

    web.uconn.edu uses an invalid security certificate. 

    The certificate is only valid for the following names: web2.uconn.edu, phonebook.uconn.edu, testsite.uconn.edu 

    Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
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Re:Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awai... by Jade_Jet on Saturday August 18, 2018 @07:54PM (#17791597)
You are right, edu sites... I changed the link to http.
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Re:Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awai... by qbrass on Sunday August 19, 2018 @08:16AM (#17793983)
While leeches have an actual medical use, historical usage of leeches was cargo culting and not science.
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