FWD: про индейские цивилизации доколумбовой Америки

"... В целом получалось где-то от 300 до 600 жертв в год, однако общего согласия по поводу реальных цифр нет: Кортес, прибыв в Теночтитлан, запретил языческие обряды, поэтому сами испанцы вживую этих жертвоприношений не видели. Сохранились их изображения в камне и настенных росписях и ритуальные предметы, использовавшиеся в обрядах, и они, как и археологические свидетельства, не подтверждают проведения когда-либо праздников с десятками тысяч жертв."
http://haritonoff.livejournal.com/141817.html
 

"Динамит" для мозгов

David Nichols: "Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry"
"My laboratory was doing research on 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA or ecstasy), a project we had started in 1982, before most people had even heard of the drug. We wanted to discover how MDMA worked in the brain because we thought drugs like it might help in psychotherapy. In the process, we studied many molecules that had structures similar to MDMA. One was 4-methylthioamphetamine, or MTA, which could inhibit the enzyme that breaks down serotonin in the body. Between 1992 and 1997, we published three papers on the effects of MTA in rats, including a study showing that MTA might have potential in the treatment of depression, and could possibly be superior to currently marketed drugs.

Without my knowledge, MTA was synthesized by others and made into tablets called, appropriately enough, 'flatliners'.

By 2002, six deaths had been associated with the use of MTA. It did not help that I knew some of these fatalities were associated with the use of multiple drugs, or had involved very large doses of MTA. I had published information that ultimately led to human death."

via imbg: "Над чем бы не работали учёные, у них, как известно, всегда получается оружие" :)