No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine

Daniel_Stuckey writes "If you give a mouse a cookie, you can spend all day following it around the house while it wants to do a bunch of tedious activities. Or, you can trap it in a box, keep feeding it cookies, and then make the outrageous claim that Oreos are as addictive as cocaine. Students at Connecticut College opted for the second option, and the consequences that ensued were much more annoying than making some arts and crafts with a darn mouse. Fox News reported that a 'College study finds Oreo cookies are as addictive as drugs,' Forbes explained 'Why Your Brain Treats Oreos Like a Drug,' and a ton of other sites ran with the story as well. Here's how the experiment, which has not been peer reviewed and has not been presented yet, went down. Mice were placed in a maze, with one end holding an Oreo and the other end holding a rice cake. The mice, without fail, decided to eat the Oreo over the rice cake, proving once and for all that mice like cookies better than tasteless discs with a styrofoamy texture."

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This experiment was already done years ago

[themushroom]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie

Oreos found 0% addictive

[flug]

He's developed his own measure for it: The percentage of people who will develop the disease of dependency, based on the DSM-IV guidelines, if they use a drug. . . .

"According to that, the most chemically addictive is nicotine because one third of people who use it during their lifetime will develop dependency," he said. "For cocaine, it's 20 percent. For heroin, it's 23 percent."

So by that standard, Oreos = 0% addictive.

Oh, well.

Re:Here's how you know it's bs

[CanHasDIY]

Here:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/53293963/ns/local_news-indianapolis_in/

Exact same fucking story.

Now, can we please start acting like grown ups, and stop pretending that there's any notable difference between the Corporate Media Networks?