I’m thinking of starting a subreddit called BoredScientists or something for these kind of studies..
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How about scientists that appear to be much better at applying for research grants than they are at doing useful science?
Edit: Will you people learn to recognize humor?
What kind of music do you think Cocaine Bear is into? I’m going with Nickelback.
What exactly are we doing with this information?
I last had this thought after reading a study on mice that were given ketamine and made to swim…
The [Ig Nobel Prize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners) has been going on for 30 years
How about r/StupidStudies ?
Like almost every study that has been reduced down to its most ridiculous-sounding components, like the “shrimp fight club,” there is a lot more to this study than its “haha, what a dumb experiment!” headline would suggest.
The study was essentially about how much of an effect drug addiction can have on changing ingrained patterns of behavior. The rats were given several musical choices to establish preferences, then cocaine was introduced to try and condition them to prefer whatever music they liked the least.
But of course, the study’s original title, “Music-induced context preference following cocaine conditioning in rats,” doesn’t drive clicks.
Molly them bitches up and crank the bassnecter
Done! r/boredscientists
The study actually found that rats 🐀 on cocaine really just prefer more cocaine.
Sign me up. I saw one the other day where they figured out that the Vikings brought their dogs and horses with them to Iceland by boat. Really? They didnt fly them there with jumbo jets after timetravelling?
“Judge a society by the freedom its scientists have to research silly bullshit” – Gandhi I think
But what *kind* of jazz? Surely not snake jazz
Cocaine study shows with cocaine in a study, girls come to your parties.
I want to see the proposal.
I need two rats, an 8ball and a copy of Bitches Brew stat!
That’s pretty much what r/science is. You just need to get more political with it and you’ll run that place.
Getting rats high on cocaine and listening to music sounds awesome. How do I participate in human trials?
Like that guy studying LSD who was just spiking any animal he saw to see how it reacted. “Oh look a moth!”
These studies on animals aren’t always applicable to humans.
When will human trials start and how do I sign up?
Does anybody know that “rats on cocaine” is an animated series? Look it up, it’s fucking insane. The episode “Narc” is my favorite, I can quote parts of it verbatim.
Rats on Cocaine, huh?
*opens Bandnames.xls*
Journal of Irreproducible Results
“instagram fact”
JFC…
[The study](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21688895/) was actually about…
> Traditional models of drug-seeking behavior have shown that exposure to associated environmental cues can trigger relapse. These learned associations take place during repeated drug administration, resulting in conditioned reinforcement.
Who pays for these studies and why?
I always assume these bonkers research papers are a side result from some other project. Like they were studying cocaine’s affect on rat livers or something and one of the researchers happened to have a particular taste in music. Then one day someone notices this and goes woah that’s weird and here we are.
Of course this is a continuation of some important research done in the 90’s in Canada
https://youtu.be/2BwrY7IVV5U
And Cocaine Bear likes metal