Grant proposal:
- salaries: 100k
- fish tank and equipment: 20k
- chemical supplies: 500k
- animal acquisition and maintenance: 50k
We justify the expenditure in this study with the need to repeat the experiment up to 500 times to reach statistical significance. The ethics committee approved the project after testing the sample of preliminary evidence we provided them with.
You make this joke, but Im sure there are conservatives already harping on this as a waste of money- meanwhile its super valuable to know the effective of human waste on fish behavior to help mitigate the damage
Is the Swedish study that tested cocaine in salmon and found the cocaine fish swam further than sober fish but both swam less than the salmon who ingested metabolized cocaine surprisingly swam the furthest. This is important because it shows human drug use is screwing up nature. The metabolized cocaine is benzoylecgonine found in human urine and it is being absorbed by the fish. It’s super interesting to see how even on dry land humans can change the sea without trying.
This was actually a really good study. While cocaine certainly fucks them up, it’s actually the human-cocaine metabolite that’s more impactful! So, ya know, we gotta make sure we’re doing waste water treatment so as to not fuck over the fish from the Saturday night, town-wide benders y’all keep having.
What the fuck?
