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An Olympia researcher—who happens to be a fourth-grader—finds you can Purell all you want, but you aren't gonna kill E. coli. In so doing, Celia Vernon wins her class science fair (with some help from her microbiologist dad). Check out the KING-5 video: She has clearly set aside any emotional engagement as a good scientist should, and she also looks like she's been wearing a lab coat her entire life.

Via the great Food Poison Journal.