In 1932, a comic featuring Mickey Mouse and his buddy, Horace Horsecollar, faced a trio of mad scientists who claimed that X-Rays would fry your brain. Kids took this pretty seriously, as they tend to do, and Pennsylvania doctor Reuben Alley wrote to Disney and complained. The above is the response received from the mouse himself.
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Turns out x-rays really can hurt you.
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Thanks to Rawley.
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And not only that, doctors don't always know best. But for 1932, that's pretty cool -- it's in Uncle Walt's actual handwriting.
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