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05 Oct 2012, 12:28 pm

Pikachurin, a retinal protein named after the famous Pokemon Pikachu for its '"ightning speed and shocking effects" was discovered by a Japanese scientist. If you go to the bottom of its Wikipedia page, you see something out of the ordinary. The Sonic Hedgehog Homolog, and Pokemon, an oncogene that was renamed because of threats from the Pokemon company.



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05 Oct 2012, 9:50 pm

Some things are just too awesome for words.


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05 Oct 2012, 10:06 pm

Sorry to inform you that this is most likely the work of the infamous site 4chan. Wikipedia is an open source program which means anyone can edit it. That "Element" or whatever it is doesn't exsist just liket he sonic one. This is, of course, a guess, but I find it unlikely that a game character would be names in sdence


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05 Oct 2012, 10:14 pm

Huh, that's a good point.

I used to be very distrustful of wikipedia, but that laxed over time.

Perhaps I've become too trustful of it.



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11 Oct 2012, 11:03 am

JockGitJnr wrote:
Sorry to inform you that this is most likely the work of the infamous site 4chan. Wikipedia is an open source program which means anyone can edit it. That "Element" or whatever it is doesn't exsist just liket he sonic one. This is, of course, a guess, but I find it unlikely that a game character would be names in sdence


Actually, all of that stuff is real... It was published in science journals. The Sonic Hedgehog Homolog is sometimes found in humans and it causes Holoprosencephaly.