Were the giant fish given booze, as Musk updates?

Billionaire Elon Musk is concerned about how Americans spend their money. The future president Donald Trump in the administration, he gets to act as the head of a kind of new surgical council.

Something to cut has already been found. On his own X messaging service, Musk shared last week publication in which, among other things, it is claimed that $100,000 of taxpayers’ money will be used for a study in which blockfish are watered down, especially with gin and tequila.

It sure sounds like shit.

Initially a couple of facts about block fish. Puffer fish (in Latin It’s cool, it’s cool ) is a stocky tupula weighing more than a ton, a swashbuckler in warm waters. It swims leisurely and occasionally rises to the surface to wade.

But what if a puffer fish started to crackle in its tequila heads, for example in line at a nightclub? However, it has mass.

It’s a shame, at least no research on lumpfish floundering can be found in general research databases, such as PubMed, which specializes in life sciences.

Legend of mobile fish seems to lead to 1975. At that time, a senator known as a careful financial expert William Proxmire wondered why $102,000 has been given to research into the effects of alcohol on fish.

As part of that test, it would also be given to pufferfish (in English sunfish ) gin and tequila. This is what the Illinois State University magazine says, for examplei The Vidette in October 1975.

Research like the one in question has therefore been funded in the 1970s and may have been completed, but the research article itself seems to be lost in the mists of history. The story has still survived as an example of the state’s wasteful use of money, even though the 50-year-old fish story is starting to smell a little bit today.

Alcohol the effect on fish and other animals has of course been studied, and is still being studied. When digging through old papers, you can find surprising examples on the subject.

For example, in 1970 researchers poured into the fighting fish 43% cheap whiskey and watched to see if it starts to crackle.

In any case, it would be interesting to know why and how, during the Vietnam war, a one-ton fish was drunk with liquor for half a million current euros.