Nomad
11-12-2002, 08:41 PM
This is taken from this month's 'Fortean Times' magazine.
Scientists who blasted drugged mice with loud music in an experiment describrd by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection as "tasteless and horrific" have recieved an official reprimand,a year after the after the results of the study were published.The experiments on 238 mice at Cambridge University,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 water 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.
Scientists who blasted drugged mice with loud music in an experiment describrd by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection as "tasteless and horrific" have recieved an official reprimand,a year after the after the results of the study were published.The experiments on 238 mice at Cambridge University,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 water 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.