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Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal

Posted by samzenpus on from the crustacean-frustration dept.

Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning but new research shows they are making shrimp swim into that big bowl of cocktail sauce in the sky. Alex Ford, a marine biologist at the University of Portsmouth, found that shrimp exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine are 5 times more likely to swim towards light instead of away from it. Shrimp usually swim away from light as it is associated with birds or fishermen.

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  1. So BP is SAVING crustaceans? by ibsteve2u · · Score: 5, Funny

    By hiding the light with a nice thick layer of oil?

    --
    Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"