[dchung333]

I thought this was satire when I clicked on it. The more I read it got progressively worse as I realized how long it took to even mention prion disease. This article doesn't really seem reviewed which seems to be a trend I'm noticing in Atlas Obscura articles. Is anyone else thinking this?

Edit: The person who wrote this article has no background at all in Food Safety, nor should they really be talking about this subject so lightly. Honestly, this article is dangerous to even really promote in the way its written. They lightly jester at that idea that a 1% fatality rate is an extremely rare occurrence and suggests that brains should be consumed in higher amounts. At first I thought this was satire but this advice is just genuinely harmful.

[cal85]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by not seeming reviewed?

[dchung333]

Reading this article I find it hard to believe an editor is involved in the process at Atlas Obscura. There have been several articles like this posted even ones that are completely fictional accounts on the website. The way this article is written it intentionally downplays real dangers of prion disease in an attempt to defend its consumption. This isn't something a magazine should be doing in the first place. I don't know what the review process there is but it's clear it doesn't seem to exist.

[zilti]

Because prion disease is close to irrelevant, as long as you don't feed the brains back to the animal it's from.

[anotherhue]

Your confidence clearly demonstrates your expertise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_dise...

[readthenotes1]

Like from sheep to cow (how we got mad cow disease) or cow to human (why mad cow disease mattered)?

[zilti]

That mattered because we fed the animals their remains.

[throwanem]

You seem to know more about the field. Will you share some details of your perspective?