re: Fun Fact: The CIA created the unabomber through a Harvard mind study from MK Ultra

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Ted’s concerns about tech are 100% accurate

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If MK ultra exist, you think they stopped at the Unibomber?

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MK Ultra

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Think about how easy it is for them to do shite like that now thru social media and the internet. Targeting people they think could fall for their bs.

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would be the worst example for a mass shooting causing a "distraction"

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SD and the Elephant: A True Story
Some animals, including elephants, exhibit a unique behavior during their mating season called “musth” (pronounced “must.”) Animal biologists characterize musth as a seemingly random episode of wild and erratic, rageful, and destructive behavior. Back in the 60s, a group of scientists wanted to investigate musth to determine how to stop it in captive Indian elephants. They argued that this behavior makes it hard to care for and conserve the species. This behavior, however, is unique to a certain set of animals, and there doesn’t seem to be a corresponding behavior in humans. So, humans were not the best model for studying it.

To be able to study musth closely, they brought an elephant to their facility. They wanted to recreate the behavior in a controlled setting, on their own terms.

As their research subject, they decided to use Tusko, a 14-year-old Indian elephant who lived at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City. In an attempt to induce a musth-like state in the elephant, the researchers chose to inject it with LSD. They hypothesized that LSD, because of its “well-known personality-disrupting” effects (as the paper described them), would be a great tool for inducing this wild, inexplicable behavior in Tusko.

hen performing experiments with drugs in a new species, scientists find it very difficult to determine what dose to use. Different animals are of different sizes, weights, and densities; have different sized organs; and metabolize drugs at different rates. Therefore, scientists struggle to compare doses between species. Since elephants were not (and still are not) used for drug research, the researchers had no example to work off of. Consequently, they were left with only their best-educated guess.

These researchers knew they were entering risky territory because they understood that LSD is one of the most potent drugs known to exist.

In humans, 20-30 micrograms of LSD is enough to induce hallucinations. That’s only .02 – .03 milligrams or about .004 milligrams per kilogram of body weight).

Compare that to the 1000 milligrams, or 6 milligrams per kilogram, of aspirin you take to treat a headache.

About .1 – .2 milligrams or about .02 mg/kg) is enough to produce major mental disturbances that resemble psychosis and delirium in people. The authors argued animals require an even higher dose to induce similar disturbances in an elephant, so they chose to inject Tusko with 297 mg of LSD, or .1 mg/kg.

To summarize, this dose per kilogram is 25 times the dose needed to induce hallucinations in humans and five to ten times the dose needed to induce psychosis. In their paper, the researchers even acknowledged that this concentration of LSD in the human body would definitely cause an overdose. But based on previous research with other animals, they hypothesized that the elephant would be less sensitive to the drug.

As you may have guessed, shortly after they injected the elephant, it keeled over and started seizing. As any scientist in their right mind would predict, Tusko had overdosed on LSD.

In an attempt to counteract the overdose, the researchers quickly injected the animal with promazine, an antipsychotic drug. This stopped the seizures. But Tusko wasn’t recovering, so they injected him with pentobarbital, a common, short-acting barbiturate that’s used today to execute prisoners.

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you can make someone download LSD from facebook?

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