26 comments

  • dobladov 3 hours ago

    This classifies Cocaine Shark as a documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Shark

    • dbbk 16 minutes ago

      "The film features various mutated creatures, none of which are actually sharks on cocaine as the title suggests." they had one job

    • yruam001 2 hours ago

      indeed

  • croemer 41 minutes ago

    The measured concentrations are on the order of 1-20 ng/mL in blood. Cmax in humans when taking those drugs are about 100-1000x higher.

    I wouldn't put too much weight on the finding that those with detections had different urea/lactate etc. There might be something underlying explaining both drug and physiology, like age.

    Could still be bad to have chronic exposure at such low levels - also fish physiology is different.

  • dotcoma 32 minutes ago

    They probably ate lawyers from New York who were on vacation…

  • laughing_man an hour ago

    I wonder how much of this is just that our tests are getting more sensitive.

    • croemer an hour ago

      Exactly, the detection itself doesn't mean anything. Is the dose relevant? If not, then not. And the dose likely isn't relevant.

  • metalman 3 hours ago

    this clearly points to an previously unknown seasonal migration from wall st.

    • pixelpoet 2 hours ago

      The Shark of Wall St

      • Gravityloss an hour ago

        Clearly there are missing parts, or opportunites, in the two trilogies.

        [Cocaine] Shark | Wolf | Bear [of Wall St]

    • throwanem an hour ago

      Seasonal migration from Wall Street to the Bahamas? 'Previously unknown?' A bit déclassé maybe, but...

  • tskulbru 2 hours ago

    First it was cocaine bear, and now cocaine shark.

  • nashashmi an hour ago

    Does that make for more aggressive sharks in the waters with unexplained behaviors?

    Is caffeine really that bad?

  • losthobbies 2 hours ago

    #justlikeus

  • stavros 2 hours ago

    After the "plastic glove" smoking gun the other day, I wonder if this is another instance of lab contamination making it into the results.

    • donkey_brains an hour ago

      Unlike plastic gloves, researchers don’t typically bring these substances into the lab.

      • mapontosevenths 9 minutes ago

        Maybe you just aren't getting invited to the cool labs?

      • stavros an hour ago

        Alas, that was the joke.

      • blitzar 44 minutes ago

        researchers party too

  • tcper an hour ago

    Sharks obtain cocaine by eating people?

    • mapontosevenths 4 minutes ago

      Sharks are on cocaine for the same reason it rains birth control now.

    • wkjagt an hour ago

      Maybe it says something about the people taking cocaine and go swimming with sharks.