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News Briefs 15-10-2014

Hey America, it’s all very well to get into the spirit of things, but it’s still not Hallowe’en yet.

Quote of the Day:

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

  1. Extraordinarily extraordinary
    “In science, the burden of proof falls upon the claimant; and the more extraordinary a claim, the heavier is the burden of proof demanded.” — Marcello Truzzi

    Note: Sagan had a little fun trimming that one down 😉

    Never did care much for this approach, though.
    It appears, more than anything, an effort to dodge in order to avoid having to consider. If science had always followed a path of turning away from an unknown because it was, at the time, an extraordinary unknown… then we might still be lining up at that old monastery on the hill.

    PS – They do make some really extraordinarily good ale!

  2. Hitler a user of “crystal meth”?
    Well, yeah Hitler used methamphetamine in injectable form for many years – this has been known for decades. But is there any evidence that he smoked or snorted literal “crystal meth”? Well, no. But more to the point, there’s sure as hell no evidence of it in the blockheaded story in The Independent.

    Instead it appears The Independent, in true Fleet Street style, has gotten the story wrong. They’ve conflated “methamphetamine” with “crystal meth”. Crystal is just a solid, crystallized form of one of, IIRC, three types of meth. It’s in crystal form to make it easier to snort or smoke, both of which methods pass more of the actual meth into the brain than taking it orally. Only injecting liquid meth gets more of the drug to the brain.

    And we’ve known for many years that since 1936 Dr. Morrell had been shooting Der Fuhrer up several times daily with a cocktail made variously of meth, morphine, codeine, Demerol, bull semen and all manner of quackish junk designed to make Hitler feel like he was walking with the king and Dr. Morrell rich. While there’s no evidence that Hitler smoked or snorted crystal meth, there’s plenty of evidence he went all the way and had Morrell inject him with meth several times a day for many years. There’s no doubt that Hitler was a serious meth junkie by the time WWII got going good. But more amazingly, from time to time Hitler cut down on the number of injections or stopped letting Morrell inject him altogether, until picking back up some days or weeks later.

    Now, IMO a meth jones is the absolute worst imaginable addiction, harder to kick, with worse withdrawal symptoms than any drug, including heroin. You go from feeling like you’re plugged into a wall socket charging your buzzing brain with unlimited power, godlike intellect and irresistible good looks, to where your guts are being eaten by rats, and you just want to kill the entire world if you have to take another minute of the torture. I can hardly imagine how Hitler could function if he suddenly cut his injections off after having them several times a day for years. There’s no evidence that Morrell ever told Hitler that he was receiving either opioids or amphetamines, and thus Hitler very well might have thought he could just stop or start the injections at will. Holy shit, but he must have been one miserable, hurting, crazy man.

    IMO Hitler’s overall craziness, his insanely bad military decisions, his mental and physical breakdown (including his Parkinson’s symptoms) as well as his incredibly arbitrary decisions sentencing thousands, even millions, to death, can be directly attributable to being a meth junkie. He’d either have delusions of grandeur while high, or feel unbelievably miserable and hateful when he was off the needle and jonesing bad.

    I don’t think anyone has ever tried to correlate Hitler’s decisions with Morrell’s injections. I think it would be telling. Who knows – maybe the Stalingrad debacle was the result of Morrell upping Der Fuhrer’s dose of meth so that the nut felt invincible. And perhaps The Holocaust was the result of Hitler trying to kick an unknown but monster meth habit, and feeling shitty and pissed-off as hell.

    It’s almost too much to bear. But what if the 85 million who died of combat, genocide, famine and disease in WWII did so because of one man’s meth addiction?

  3. Poaching
    So basically…Zoids. I’m down with that. And while it may not seem as badass as a giant robotic golden eagle, New Jersey does employ robotic turkeys and deer to trick poachers by placing them by the highways while game wardens watch close by.

  4. Crabzilla
    I may be the only one on the internet or at least TDG that thinks this would be awesome. Maybe it’s because I have a softball sized pet hermit crab in my room named Big Oliver 😀

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