Skeptoid #561: Beethoven's Hair
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Popular stories claim Beethoven died of lead poisoning, but the science so far doesn't hold up.
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| 0:00.0 | We all have televisions, and we all watch the occasional documentary, so a lot of us |
| 0:07.9 | end up learning the same things. |
| 0:10.4 | Only those things don't have a very good track record of being true, do they? |
| 0:15.2 | One of these is the now commonly believed idea that Beethoven died of lead poisoning, |
| 0:21.1 | and the evidence came from finding huge amounts of lead in preserved locks of his hair. |
| 0:27.4 | Beethoven's hair is today on Skeptoid. |
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