MOS: Spinal Cocaine
Along with reducing fatigue, it also suppresses appetite, manages altitude sickness, and makes you really want to talk about your screenplay at 4am.
MOS: The Human Radiation Experiments
A eugenicist superintendent at a school in Massachusetts approved feeding lightly radioactive oatmeal to his mentally disabled students. But they took the kids to some Red Sox games, so.
MOS: Ouija Boards & the Ideomotor Effect
The versions most of us have seen this century typically have all the letters of the Latin alphabet and the numbers 0-9 along with the words ‘yes,’ ‘no,’ and an irreverent little ‘goodbye’ to let you know the afterlife is fed up with your shit.
MOS: Hot Sugared Butthole (…for science?)
One way to reduce inflammation and swelling in the exposed rectal tissue is to take advantage of good old osmosis. Pouring a literal buttload of sugar on this pink tube sock of danger? Yes, it’s exactly like pouring salt on a slug.
SciBabe’s (heavily abridged) Guide to a Fuckery Free Life
Look, I need a literal book to get through all of this, but you’re gonna see some fuckery on the internet. Today. Tomorrow. You almost definitely tripped over it yesterday too.
MOS: Minoxidil
A pharmaceutical company founded in 1886, Upjohn (now a part of Pfizer) had a solid reputation that it wasn’t about to sully by making bald-today-hair-tomorrow pills.
MOS: The Smell of Parkinson’s
At first Les bathed more thoroughly as requested, but it didn’t help. He couldn’t smell it, and nobody else seemed to detect a whiff either.
MOS: Coconut Migration
Coconuts may have floated between islands, but suggesting they migrated to the Caribbean from Asia? No swallow, unladen or otherwise, would dare.
MOS: The Jan Hendrik Schön Scandal
When asked for his original data, he said he deleted it because they were low on memory. The fucking audacity to claim Bell Labs was low on memory.