Talk:1982 Chicago Tylenol murders
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The capsules were later found to contain 65 milligrams of cyanide each, more than 10,000 times the lethal dose to an adult. This is the first known deliberate tampering of a medication that led to death.
Obviously, they caused death - however, cyanide is not that toxic. Ricin - by injection - had a lethal dose of dozens of times the amount of cyanide implied. Looking at [1], cyanide has a lethal dose of almost 5 magnitudes more than the amount implied above! Pakaran. 11:58, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I concur there is a problem here. I find an LD50 of about 2 mg/kg which makes it lethal to 50% exposed at roughly a 120 mg dose. I'm not sure where the problem lies here, so I'm going to remove the sentence for the moment. Siradia 06:39, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] best title?
Seven people died -- is Tylenol "scare" the best title for this? Tylenol murders? Tylenol tampering? Tylenol crisis? [[User:CatherineMunro|Catherine\talk]] 08:16, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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- I gather there was a large ruckus over this, but the title could be better, I'm thinking something with the year or city in it... Thanx 68.39.174.91 09:25, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
I changed it, but it is kind of long. Father Howabout1 Talk to me! 04:12, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Chicage?
Clearly it ought to be titled Chicago. Update a few minutes later... ok my account is too new and I can't move pages. I created a new page with the correct title and changed all appropriate links to it. This "Chicage" page can be deleted, or if someone wants to clean up after me and properly move the page then go for it.
[edit] Inappropriate statement of fact
Stating that James Lewis had "no connections to the deaths" is wrong, in my opinion. It's unknown whether or not he was involved. Some articles I've seen claim that the police concluded he couldn't have been the killer, while others suggest that they simply were unable to prove that he was involved. Since we don't know for sure, we shouldn't make a claim either way. --Fusion 03:00, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Effect on Halloween 1982
If I remember correctly, the Tylenol scare had a major effect on Halloween in the U.S. and Canada. Does anybody have any facts (candy sales, costumes sales or rentals, etc.)that would support this. If so, it might make an interesting tidbit for this article.--Palm90 03:19, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pop culture reference
I think there was a Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode (I think it was "Poison", season 1, episode 7), where some woman buys pills, tampers with them, and puts them back on the shelf. See also Excedrin and Stella Nickell.--Athcnv 23:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Name, again.
First off, "Crisis" should not be capitalized. Secondly, "crisis" is the wrong word anyway - it implies lots of chaotic, interacting tensions, while these were premeditated murders. Think "Cuban Missile Crisis" or the like for the actual usage of crisis. The move rationale was that it implied Tylenol did the murders itself, which is silly, but if you believe that, then it's equally possible to interpret the current title as Tylenol being in a crisis itself, which is also ridiculous. I think it should be moved back to "1982 Chicago Tylenol murders". SnowFire 17:58, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References
There are no references whatsoever in this article. This obviously needs to be remedied. Can the author(s) substantiate their work? Halogenated (talk) 13:22, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
