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Post by doofus_maximus Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:47 pm

Arteminisin-Made in China

Chinese cultural revolution, Vietcong, and intrigue will surely leave Nobel prize committee scratching their heads.
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Post by doofus_maximus Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:08 pm

no body found this interesting. Sometimes CH supplizes me.
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Post by artood2 Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:15 pm

Very interesting DM. This excerpt (though a side note in the context of the article) was very interesting





While powerful, mefloquine has serious drawbacks, including nightmares and paranoia. In 2003, dozens of American Marines in Liberia got malaria after refusing to take pills because of military scuttlebutt that several Special Forces soldiers who killed their wives after returning home from Afghanistan in 2002 had been driven insane by the drug.
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Post by doofus_maximus Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:25 pm

Mefloquine does induce vivid nightmares and I have friends in Peacecorps who took it when they were in West Africa who say that the hallucinations/dreams are amazing. It takes years for them to get normal.
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Post by charvaka Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:15 pm

Fascinating story. Who will they give the Nobel too, even if they want to? May be to a large group of scientists?
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Post by doofus_maximus Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:09 pm

they should give to Chairman Mao, special provision in this case.

PS: Only in the USA will a drug like Mefloquine be approved. How is that even a drug?
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Post by charvaka Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:52 pm

doofus_maximus wrote:they should give to Chairman Mao, special provision in this case.
Don't they have a provision against posthumous awards?

doofus_maximus wrote:PS: Only in the USA will a drug like Mefloquine be approved. How is that even a drug?
It's a drug like LSD is a drug.
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