Nine mummies held in a Munich museum tested positive for cocaine alongside hashish and tobacco; contamination was reportedly ruled out. The museum has refused retesting. Dr. David Moore's point in the video: when the holding institution blocks replication, that's the party doing pseudo-science, not the dissenting researchers. 💀🔬
Nine Munich mummies tested positive for cocaine; museum refuses retesting
Key facts
- The video describes testing of nine mummies held in a Munich museum in Germany, known as the "Munich Nine", which returned positive results for cocaine as well as hashish and tobacco.
- The presenter says tobacco could be explained away but that cocaine is harder to explain, and that contamination was ruled out provided the scientist who wrote the paper did what she described.
- The presenter says the Munich museum has refused to allow the nine mummies to be tested a second time.
- The video quotes Dr. David Moore as arguing that the museum, rather than dissenting researchers, is the party engaging in pseudo-science, and asks why criticism is aimed at alternative archaeologists instead of the holding institution.
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In 1992, Dr. Svetlana Balabanova, a German toxicologist, found traces of cocaine, tobacco, and hash in several different mummies.
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At a 500-year-old hospital in Milan, researchers found traces of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, in mummies.
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