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Cortisol, caffeine, and hallucinations apparently go together like cream and sugar with your coffee, according to a recent study at Durham University. However, as the writers of the Mind Hacks point out at the link above, correlation is not causation, and bad science reporting is pretty funny when it isn't scary:

Coffee addicts see dead people
Caffeine, Responsible For Hallucinations
Did You See That Pink Elephant?
Too Much Coffee Can Cause You To Freak Out, Man
Coffee may make you see ghosts
Coffee linked to 'visions'
'Coffeeholics wake the dead'

Which just goes to show that there aren't too many Ernest Hemingways editing the headline writers. The study is not bad, for what it is. The headlines would be good in the garden to promote healthy growth, as long as you didn't put too much of it on or piled in on too deep.

tags: science caffeine hallucinations reportage

This guy used to draw Too Much Coffee Man for the local newspaper and was a contact for my daughter when she first moved here and did her comic strip in the local newspaper. Of course, TMCM isn't in this particular panel, for some reason...

Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler
© 2009 Shannon Wheeler - All Rights Reserved.

tags: comics culture nostalgia man slacker too much coffee caffeine