What if?

Mystery surrounds hallucinatory chaos

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German homeopathy conference

Police investigating a mass intoxication of a homeopathy conference in Germany  with psychedelic drugs have said they still do not know nearly a week later whether it was an accident or an experiment gone wrong.

La polizia è perplessa da una settimana, secondo i media locali e internazionali i trenta omeopati e naturopati si son fatti di anfetamine, LSD (omissis) e Aqua Rust, una fenetilamina. Da ricercatore in ciarlatani e ciarlatenerie, Edzard Ernst si chiede se quegli omeopati riceveranno il Nobel e fa alcune ipotesi:

At a symposium last weekend, 29 German homeopaths ended up in hospital after ingesting the powerful hallucinogenic drug, 2C-E, also known as Aqua Rust. You can read it here or here or here or here, for instance.
The events are a bit nebulous, and most newspapers got it at least partly wrong. (…)
What if, as has been suggested, these people actually did a homeopathic proving on Aqua Rust? In this case, they are my heroes! Not just because they sacrificed their own health in the interest of medicine, but they seem to have found an important, I would even say ground-breaking new cure.

In cauda venenum. Dedicato a chi crede negli spacciatori di bufale; il titolo è quello di un bel libro di Randall Munroe, in arte xkcd.