tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post4246661309798951519..comments2023-12-30T01:23:38.125-08:00Comments on Riddled: Why is a mouse that spins?Hamish Mackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18079552635307235197noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-6272107701471960382013-04-26T23:11:49.509-07:002013-04-26T23:11:49.509-07:00Did you have something to do w/ this action?
Not ...<i>Did you have something to do w/ this action?</i><br /><br />Not us!<br /><br />It was tempting to go off on a side-track about Maddy Hornig's "Rain mouse" study from 2004. Hornig and her colleagues had received a research grant to show that vaccines caused autism. So they developed a "mouse model of autism" in which mice were injected with mercury-based antibiotic, in large enough doses to damage nerves in their paws. The resulting mice were relatively inactive (because they were in agony whenever they tried to walk), which for the purposes of the study was an "autism-like symptom".<br /><br />Couldn't write anything funny, alas.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-34168424806203349782013-04-26T20:14:07.876-07:002013-04-26T20:14:07.876-07:00"a mouse model for autism"
Now when Mic...<i>"a mouse model for autism"</i><br /><br />Now when Mickey sold his cow for "magic beans" THAT was an autism-spectrum moment.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-15746723406345142362013-04-26T18:52:23.235-07:002013-04-26T18:52:23.235-07:00cThe ground-breaking research at Riddled Laborator...c<i>The ground-breaking research at Riddled Laboratories with cocoa and godmeat gene transfection brought the reporters running, except they never actually reached us on account of the broken ground and the consequent exploding tanks and pteranodons.</i><br /><br />I think some of them had a run-in with some out-of control Valkyries in the Black Mountains.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-72924309099076504062013-04-26T13:22:33.708-07:002013-04-26T13:22:33.708-07:00Did you have something to do w/ this action?Did you have something to do w/ <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/26/stop-green-hill-activists-occupy-research-facility-and-release-mice.html" rel="nofollow">this action</a>?M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-74254752514710105222013-04-26T12:36:49.078-07:002013-04-26T12:36:49.078-07:00I hope they do further testing on Deadmau5.I hope they do further testing on <a href="http://www.deadmau5.com" rel="nofollow">Deadmau5</a>.OBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-85070756724472833102013-04-26T10:44:38.738-07:002013-04-26T10:44:38.738-07:00They are not looking for world domination. They ar...They are not looking for <b>world domination</b>. They are here to <a href="http://tamworthlive.co.uk/files/2010/09/Dangermouse.jpg" rel="nofollow">save the world</a>!Sirius Lunacynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-30622264226068128012013-04-26T04:13:25.874-07:002013-04-26T04:13:25.874-07:00Algernon: autistic or ahead of his time?Algernon: autistic or ahead of his time?El Manquécitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04059656060763349472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-90090717772175726742013-04-26T03:47:36.561-07:002013-04-26T03:47:36.561-07:00Sad thing is that what Naviaux &co are doing l...Sad thing is that what Naviaux &co are doing looks (to this uninitiated reader) like really good research -- just that it is in no way connected with the things that the terms of their funding require them to pretend that it is connected with.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-37884795111032968002013-04-25T23:17:44.168-07:002013-04-25T23:17:44.168-07:00I've observed ballistic organ syndrome in a do...I've observed ballistic organ syndrome in a dog hit by a car on a freeway. Those viscera could have gone supersonic!M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-88637855921041345942013-04-25T18:56:31.037-07:002013-04-25T18:56:31.037-07:00Um. I've used suramin to treat trypanosomiasis...Um. I've used suramin to treat trypanosomiasis. Bugger of a drug. I'll take the chocolate deficient autistic mice, thanks (...though if you have any ratonastick I could be persuaded)rhwombatnoreply@blogger.com