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Posted by Spin Doctor on Dec-11-2002 19:24:

Mouse Rave!

Scientists who blasted drugged mice with loud music in an experiment described by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection as �tasteless and horrific� have received an official Home Office reprimand, a year after the results of the study were published in the Journal NeuroReport. The Experiments on 238 mice at Cambridge University, led by Dr Jenny Morton, were a by-product of research into Huntingdon�s Disease.

Half the mice were injected with methamphetamine and half with salt water. They were then exposed to silence, white noise, or loud music � either the dance act The Prodigy or Bach�s Violin Concerto in A Minor, which have a similar tempo. Mice Injected with salt fell asleep when the music was played, but the sound dramatically affected the drugged mice, causing them to suffer more speed-induced brain damage than normal. Seven died listening to The Prodigy and four while listening to Bach. They appeared to �jiggle backwards and forwards� as the music pounded in their ears.

Scotsman, Irish Times, Daily Telegraph, 19 August 2002 / Fortean Times December 2002.

Posted by BTG on Dec-11-2002 19:29:

yeah, i read about that a while ago.

i still laugh at the mice jiggling backwards and forwards.

Posted by naeblis on Dec-11-2002 19:29:

What were they trying to accomplish?

Posted by LKD on Dec-11-2002 19:46:

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jiggling backand forth

any footage available??

Posted by Spad on Dec-11-2002 19:59:

I bet the mice didn't have access to free drinking water??

Posted by SmellsExcellent on Dec-11-2002 20:03:

now that is really fucked up...

-m

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Dec-11-2002 20:27:

Prodigy is a dance act?

Posted by Spin Doctor on Dec-11-2002 21:22:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Prodigy is a dance act?

Er, what else should they be described as then?

Posted by Swamper on Dec-11-2002 22:30:

Check out this prodigy showing off his brilliant artwork

Posted by Fir3start3r on Dec-11-2002 23:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Swamper
Check out this prodigy showing off his brilliant artwork

Man Swamp...you should have changed...

Posted by Dmatrox on Dec-12-2002 04:24:

quote:
Originally posted by Spad
I bet the mice didn't have access to free drinking water??

ya thats probably why they died.

MAy be the dosage was too high for the rats. They should have lowered the dosage and tried again, this time with a cool light show and free drinking water

Posted by Raptor on Dec-12-2002 07:56:

quote:
Originally posted by Dmatrox
ya thats probably why they died.

MAy be the dosage was too high for the rats. They should have lowered the dosage and tried again, this time with a cool light show and free drinking water

Posted by chris kaos on Dec-12-2002 08:52:

poor mice

Posted by Philby on Dec-12-2002 09:43:

hehe why didn't the dea run in and shut it down under the r.a.v.e act? bloody gurning mice...

Posted by Tranzmit on Dec-13-2002 01:28:

aaah what they expect eh? Play the Prodigy and they fall backwards, had they played some decent trance the mice woulda been jumping up and down instead of trying to jump backwards and hence falling over (the poor blighters)

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