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Re:'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness by tasuki on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:22AM (#23582395)
> he didn't die because he ate poisonous berries that messed up his digestive system. He simply burned more calories than he consumed.

How do you know?

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Re:'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness by BeetleB on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:48PM (#23586609)
The "poisonous berries" theory came from one writer who did shoddy research. Those berries do not even exist in that region.

Actually, reading up on it now, it seems there have been more developments since I last read it a decade ago.

In any case, let's just say there are proponents of both theories. In my opinion, though, Occam's razor points to simple starvation.

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Re:'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness by catalogia on Saturday June 20, 2020 @08:56PM (#23588766)
> Those berries do not even exist in that region

The "poison berries" refer to potato seeds, no? McCandless wrote about eating them in his journal, they weren't fabricated by some writer.

> Day 78: Missed wolf. Ate potato seeds and many berries coming.

> Day 94: Woodpecker. Fog. Extremely weak. Fault of potato seed. Much trouble just to stand up. Starving. Great jeopardy.

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Re:'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness by catalogia on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:55AM (#23582519)
He kept a journal. The berries were probably the final straw, but he was already starving.
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