As we all need a dollop of weirdness ere now & again.
Sports Illustrated is reporting from the CNN website the Italian Mafia was attempting to fix races by doping horses with … Viagra. This unique application for the legal … um … ‘adult recreational’ drug of choice was – I think it safe to say – unforeseen by the developers and has not been through the standard clinical trials.
Money quote:
“It was not clear how Viagra affected the horses’ speed.”
Gosh. I am glad we have them professional journalists, with ethics & all that there stuff, to inform us lowly slobs that it is unknown how human sex drugs affect horses. Whodathunkit?
Second, what the devil? I mean. I mean. I mean. Who in the their right mind would even think there is a connection between running fast and – you know. As a researcher and, I hope, a member of the Reality Based Community I tend to support and encourage scientific investigation. But nude speed trials with some of the experimental subjects in a ‘certain condition’ (ipso phallic?) staggers even my warped imaginaton.
Certainly the Ancient Greeks perfected the Noble Art of running-around-in-the-all-
together-in-front-of-God-and-everybody but it is my understanding it was not with a rigorous (so to speak) requirement.
But then, perhaps, my education lacks completeness.
