Spoiler alert: It’s a research program for over 20 years at Northeastern University to understand the impact of steroid abuse in teens.
Why aren’t they televising it? They could fund the entire university. Heck, partner up with those sketchy betting apps and do studies on addiction
Yeah this is fucking awesome, regardless of impact.
I am, however, torn between the idea of roided up hamsters punching each other with boxing gloves and the knowledge of the reality that they probably just ate each other alive so after a certain point it was just animal abuse.
That seems to be so common of a theme in theirs… Testing narcotics on animals to make predictions of how they impact humans is constantly being used as a chilling and watching animals take drugs". The idea that there’s solutions to drug use that might be more effective than throw drug users into private prisons to do slave labor seems quite lost on these people.
Here’s a fun game: describe your research/interest in a similar way that Fox/Republicans use to describe research. The more misleading it is from the actual research, the better.
I’ll start: watch how tired mice get when they get sick
(determine the mechanism of how microbial contact affects host circadian rhythms)
Even that wasn’t quite clickbaity and broken enough.
I studied whether we could operate dump trucks on mars.
(Super hydraulic fluid based rover systems)
My friend made moss in jars for air conditioning.
(Super endothermic moss for cooling, oxygen and protein development in space)
You gave mice the flu and asked them to sleep.
I study how fast poison leaking into the ground is cleaned up by microbes, and how it’s possible to protect drinking water sources from that poison.
I honestly don’t know how to phrase that so it sounds ridiculous or useless.
I’ll take a stab at it.
“Researchers spend $X to see whether poison leaking into the ground gets into our water.”
You seriously (I’m dead serious) need to pitch this as a game show to Netflix.
My company charged the government billions of dollars for a camera that takes hours to take one photo.
My company costs the government billions each year for weapons that haven’t been used in nearly 80 years. Talk about inefficiency!
Nukes and nuclear nonproliferation.
Shout-out to republican department of energy head Rick Perry who wanted to get rid of the DOE thinking it was just solar panels and windmills. TEXAS MAN THINK GOVERNMENT ENERGY BAD.
Republicans and intellectual dishonesty
Unchecked misinformation and algorithmic control of people’s eyes and brains will be the collapse of civilization before climate change does us in.
