The Adrenochrome Deception

The Truths, Lies, and Disinformation Surrounding a Mythical yet Very Real Substance

There is nothing more intriguing than an enigmatic character who defies political and cultural boundaries to tell great truths, yet mixes in just enough lies, fakery, shiny objects, red herrings, exaggerations and omissions to make himself or herself economically viable solely on their product.

It also helps if that character furthers the interests of cultural Marxism.

Exhibit A: Hunter S. Thompson

It is a minor forbidden delight to read such people, as well as to write in that style. The problem, however, is that what the author gains in the ability to “get past the censors”, is lost in terms of ultimate credibility. In the end, we are left with – more than anything else – entertainment – not journalism.

Gonzo journalism has a price. And in addition to loss of credibility, part of that price is what I would call the satanic train-wreck factor.

Read enough of a guy like Thompson, and eventually one thinks something like the following:

THANK GOD I turned away from (fill in the blank) back when (fill in the blank), and I stopped hanging around with (fill in the blank), because otherwise I would be living through the same skanky, tacky, vomit-smelling nightmare of drugs, alcohol, bad sex and psychotic living that Hunter S. Thompson lived through, which is NO LONGER VERY FUNNY.”

Indeed – if you EVER got to the point of being “kinda sick” of any writing by Hunter S. Thompson before you finished reading it – even better if you put it down and didn’t finish it – then this article is going to make a LOT more sense, than it will to those who hung on his every word.

Hunter S Thompson, more than anybody else, was responsible for the myth of adrenochrome taking hold of America’s collective drug consciousness. Whether HST himself originated the urban legend of adrenochrome, or merely passed it on, is not certain. What IS certain, is that when people feel the need to provide SOME kind of reference to demonstrate the reality of adrenochrome, they almost always cite Hunter S. Thompson and his book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Here is how the “adrenochrome scene” was transferred to the big screen.

However, here is what IMDB has to say about that scene:

Near end of this film, Duke takes too much “andrenichrome” and has a nasty experience. Andrenichrome was a substance that Hunter S. Thompson made up for the book when he originally wrote it, and was kept in the script by Terry Gilliam. The name itself wasn’t new – Adrenochrome is an oxidation product of adrenaline, while Adrenochrome semicarbazone, also known as carbazochrome, is used as a medicinal drug to reduce capillary bleeding – however, neither compound is a hallucinogenic drug as portrayed in the book and film. After showing a rough cut of the film to a test audience, Gilliam was approached by a group of young men, one of which complimented him on the film in general, but said that his favorite scene was the andrenichrome scene. He said that he had used the drug, and that Gilliam had captured the effects perfectly. Gilliam didn’t have the heart to tell the kid that it was made up, and went along with his story.

IMDB Trivia entry for “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

So what’s the truth about adrenochrome?

Let’s look at it again, but more slowly.


Adrenochrome is, for lack of a better term, a MYTHICAL DRUG.

Not a drug ampule. An “unstable research chemical” ampule.

https://www.erowid.org/library/books/adrenochrome_other_mythical.shtml

Adrenochrome is not mythical in the sense that it does not exist. It is mythical in terms of being almost 90% sexy but untrue (yet potentially profitable) legend, and 10% oddly unsexy reality.

Even the notoriously dubious aphrodisiac “Spanish fly” – which CAN (sometimes) cause priapism as an annoying side-effect of dangerous inflammation of the internal mucosa – is “more real” than adrenochrome.

All recreational drugs are, to some extent, mythical, in that they become focal points for petabytes of rumors, lies and disinformation. However, some drugs are more mythical than others, and of all the “highly mythical” ones, adrenochrome is one of the worst.

Adrenochrome is marketed to the unwary – meaning the vast majority of humans – by layer upon layer of mutually reinforcing LIES. With a name that sounds half-way between adrenalin – something natural, good, exciting, quasi-sexual and biochemical – and chromosome – something natural, powerful, mysterious, quasi-sexual and deeply biological – adrenochrome can be whatever your mind wants it to be.

Thus, the very name adrenochrome sets it up perfectly for its primary myth:


THE MYTH: that adrenochrome is some sort of EXOTIC BIOCHEMICAL giving an EXTREME HIGH, and that it comes from either the….

  • blood
  • pineal glands
  • pituitary glands
  • hypothalamus
  • adrenal glands
  • or some other exotic location

….of the living or recently deceased bodies of terrorized innocent people, particularly tortured, trafficked, or imprisoned women or children.


The exact myth varies, but all forms of the myth require either the murder, torture, or terrorizing of innocent people.

And it is ALL – as far as either a WORKING DRUG or an ACTUAL ORIGIN is concerned – absolute bullshit.

However, that does not mean that one cannot:

  • sell people things that they believe are or contain adrenochrome
  • buy things that one believes are or contain adrenochrome
  • do horrible things that one believes will create adrenochrome

Are you with me?

I want to make sure you understand that just because adrenochrome isn’t “real”, doesn’t mean that some or all of the sick universe surrounding it isn’t real. As one descends into the world of drugs and casual / illicit / paid sex, from there into the world of crime and cruelty, and from there into the world of satanism and utter evil, “truth” is of little value. What one BELIEVES controls reality, and people do believe a lot of really horrible stuff.

The Johnny Depp movie about satanism – “The Ninth Gate” – is instructive. People who BELIEVE in evil will ACT on those beliefs to CREATE evil. Evil EMERGES from BELIEF in it.

Or just read about the SATANIC serial killer, Richard Ramirez, who was actually PROTECTED by Dianne Feinstein (she leaked information that helped him avoid capture). The fake news media likewise HIDES and PROTECTS satanism, while demonizing the tools that evil chooses to use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez

So, in an odd way, the VERY BELIEF in the LIES about adrenochrome actually creates the evil of it.

Are you ready for me to explain?

Good. Let’s begin.


Most people are not prepared to debunk the mythical chemistry or pharmacology of adrenochrome, and there is a huge part of the world that has no intention of debunking it, beyond doing so quietly enough to maintain their own political credibility and – in my suspicious cat opinion – CASH FLOW.

We will get to the part about CASH later.

Unless you have at least two semesters of college organic chemistry, and one semester of biochemistry, it is highly unlikely that you will be suspicious enough to figure out that there is something terribly wrong with the “standard myth” of adrenochrome.

Allow me to help.

A chemist or other scientist with enough training looks at THIS simple organic chemical structure:

Adrenochrome, C9H9NO3

….and then thinks the following:

“This is a dead simple molecule – easy to make. Even the chiral center is no problem. Heck – we could have made this in Organic I Laboratory. If it actually worked as a DRUG, people would be mainlining it or vaping it. There is no need for terrorizing children or carving out the adrenal glands of murder victims. That would be like giving somebody an ASPIRIN and then extracting aspirin from their blood. It’s ridiculous. Make it and take it, like METH.”

Short version: Adrenochrome’s own MOLECULE outs most of the myth as a lie. It is a simple organic chemical that can be made in the lab. It has been OBSERVED as the pinkish oxidation product of adrenaline since roughly 1909, and was fully identified in the laboratory in 1937.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1266980/

Upon separation, purification, and crystallization, adrenochrome is basically reddish crystals that slowly decompose and go bad in a few weeks. The reason that it goes bad is that the adrenochrome molecule is both an oxidizing agent called a “quinone”, and a reducing agent called an “amino alcohol”. Adrenochrome was born to destroy itself.

Nevertheless, for subtle chemical reasons, this substance is stable enough to work with in a laboratory or clinical setting, or even send through the mail. THAT is why scientists could actually STUDY adrenochrome AS A DRUG in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Same with adrenalin – it’s easily made, studied, and transported. SCIENTISTS MADE THEM BOTH IN THE LAB TO STUDY – a LONG time ago.

Why try to isolate these simple chemicals from any biological source, once it’s obvious what they are, and knowing that you can make them easily – on a far bigger scale than they can be isolated biologically?

Fast forward to NOW. You can buy this stuff PURE from companies like Sigma Aldrich, where EVERYBODY gets chemicals. Here it is, shipped in an ampule, to keep it nice and pure, because the stuff DOES decompose slowly at room temperature, and faster when open to the air. Even in the ampule, it slowly decomposes, so refrigerating it is a good idea – probably best kept in the FREEZER.

Now – before we get started – I want to make something EXTREMELY clear.

The MYTH of adrenochrome does not mean that people don’t actually pay a pretty penny for the stuff – WHATEVER they may actually be buying. They may be buying the real thing. They may be buying something else. They may be buying a complete LIE. Doesn’t matter.

If you know anything about the ILLEGAL AND RECREATIONAL DRUG WORLD, then you know that every single thing that is sold is very likely to be FAKE, to be IMPURE, to be a LIE, and to either NOT WORK or WORK TOO WELL, because it is really SOMETHING ELSE.

The drug world is 30% about drugs. It is 70% about MONEY. Maybe MORE. Understand that, and you will understand why the top echelon of the political left promotes the adrenochrome mythology – not openly, but through the political operative middle, who are tasked with keeping the myth alive, although THEY are not told the full truth. That effort is not simply to distract and discredit conservatives, but also to create a market among Hollyweird idiots and Shillicon Valley chumps for bogus adrenochrome products.

Do you see where this goes?

That kid in the IMDB story was very likely SOLD something – ANYTHING – under the guise of it being “adrenochrome”.

Use AND LOGIC to see all the reasons why the left promotes the adrenochrome myth. Overall, adrenochrome WORKS for the left. But not in the way that ANY of the “true believers” think it does.

I will return to this point later, in even more detail.


Now that we have cracked the first part of the myth – namely that adrenochrome is some “special” substance that needs to come from abused humans – WHICH IT DOES NOT – we can move on to the second half of the myth – WHAT REAL ADRENOCHROME ACTUALLY DOES.

Because “adrenochrome” SOUNDS LIKE “adrenaline”, people assume that it has some kind of similar effects. The adrenochrome myth always offers some kind of ultimate high or euphoria that the rich are willing to pay boo-koo bucks to experience.

This idea is ALMOST reasonable. Although adrenochrome is actually a metabolic degradation product of adrenaline, something which has strong, known effects, there ARE many cases where drugs that are given to people actually turn into STRONGER drugs in the body. The administered drugs serve as what are called “pro-drugs” – meaning they are biochemical precursors of the stuff that ACTUALLY has the main pharmacological effect. So it isn’t totally unreasonable to think that perhaps adrenochrome, as a decay product of adrenaline, has some kind of magical effect that is STRONGER than adrenaline.

However, this is NOT the case. It is KNOWN that adrenochrome does NOT have any of the profound physiological effects of adrenaline – either the same ones or different ones. In fact, like most metabolic degradation products, adrenochrome is “a lesser, weaker product that gets flushed”. It’s weaker, different, and not even particularly stable, turning into OTHER THINGS as it breaks down.

And it gets worse for the myth.

Part of the reason the myth works is that people believe adrenochrome can affect the brain, because of something called the adrenochrome hypothesis. This is a formerly dubious but increasingly foundational hypothesis that adrenochrome itself causes the symptoms of schizophrenia. It comes from the fact that early pharmacological tests of adrenochrome elicited psychotic symptoms in some subjects.

Yes, that’s right. Psychotic symptoms. Not Psychedelic. PSYCHOTIC.

This is not exactly something that people who want to get HIGH are looking for. They may be looking for pretty colors. They are probably NOT looking for turning into a crazy person.

Here is a quote:

Several small-scale studies (involving 15 or fewer test subjects) conducted in the 1950s and 1960s reported that adrenochrome triggered psychotic reactions such as thought disorderderealization, and euphoria.[2] Researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond claimed that adrenochrome is a neurotoxicpsychotomimetic substance and may play a role in schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.[3] In what they called the “adrenochrome hypothesis”,[4] they speculated that megadoses of vitamin C and niacin could cure schizophrenia by reducing brain adrenochrome.[5][6] While the treatment of schizophrenia with such potent anti-oxidants is highly contested in the literature, and adrenochrome is not currently believed to have any psychedelic properties,[7] a number of recently published papers consider Hoffer’s paper a landmark contribution to the notion that impairment of what’s now termed the anti-oxidant defense system (AODS) seems to play a role in schizophrenia.[8]

Wikipedia, entry for Adrenochrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenochrome#Effect_on_the_brain

A good insider review of the history and scientific politics of the adrenochrome hypothesis, along with the somewhat allied movement called orthomolecular psychiatry, can be found here:

http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1999/articles/1999-v14n01-p049.shtml

To put things quickly in perspective, one might say that the original adrenochrome hypothesis was a crude but remarkably foretelling sketch of what we now know to be true. It turns out that oxidized neurotransmitters such as adrenaline ARE in fact partially responsible for neurotoxic degradation of neurons in the brain, and THAT is in turn largely responsible for neurological diseases including schizophrenia and Parkinsonism.

An example of the kind of research that brought increasing respect for the adrenochrome hypothesis is this paper, showing that certain enzymes which may be missing or impaired in schizophrenia are capable of removing adrenochrome.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1218396/

Similarly, and in an almost remarkable proof of the current model of schizophrenia and Parkinsonism, the very oxidizing agents that can be used in the laboratory or factory to turn adrenaline into adrenochrome, are in some cases THEMSELVES neurotoxic in almost exactly the same way.

In other words, chemicals that can MAKE adrenochrome from adrenaline in the lab, appear to make it in the body, too. But they don’t make people high. They make them very ill, by attacking the brain, similarly to schizophrenia and Parkinsonism.

Pretty powerful logic, isn’t it?

So – adrenochrome causing short-term psychotic symptoms makes some sense (although THAT is where the science is again complicated).

But what about “euphoria”?

Now, the word “euphoria” is noted from this early adrenochrome research, but we need to temper that with the fact that the world’s EXPERTS on euphoria produced by recreational drugs – meaning EXPLORATORY SELF-TESTING DRUG ABUSERS – have NOT found real adrenochrome to be a worthwhile recreational drug.

Let’s go now to EROWID – which is basically an online cyber-collective of druggies who actually care about the details of drugs. They’re a bit like volunteer librarians in the world of illicit drugs. Here is their money quote on adrenochrome:

Adrenochrome is an oxidation product of adrenaline (ephinephrine, norepinephrine). It has achieved mythical status as a deliberately-ingested psychoactive — boosted by H.S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — though it is debated whether it has any psychoactive effects at all.

Erowid entry on Adrenochrome

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/adrenochrome/adrenochrome.shtml

The most useful report was by a science-minded self-tester nicknamed genaro, who obtained commercial adrenochrome and self-administered it three ways, obtaining the exact same effects every time.

  • sublingual and oral (under tongue, then swallowed)
  • nasal (snorted)
  • smoked (crack pipe)

His report is entitled “Killing the Myth” (you can guess what that means), and is partly included below, so hang on before you click. I’m just giving the references. The best description is here:

https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=51847

Genaro also repeated his report and discussed it with other drug experimenters here:

https://drugs-forum.com/threads/adrenochrome-report.17239/

Adrenochrome is apparently not difficult to obtain. Although researchers can get it from more legitimate suppliers such as Sigma-Aldrich:

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/a5752?lang=en&region=US

It is also available from less reputable “Chinese research chemical suppliers” who have fronts in the United States.

https://www.medkoo.com/products/20409

Genaro appears to have gotten his adrenochrome from a legitimate chemical supplier in Europe.

Genaro’s experience with adrenochrome was less impressive than most drugs, and frankly on par with the “recreationally uninteresting” effects of schizophrenia, if even that. Adrenochrome clearly had some mental effect, but nothing interesting enough that most people who enjoy any form of recreational drug – including caffeine or nicotine – would be interested.

Per Genaro:

To sum up, effects were extremely weak, absolutely not fun nor psychedelic in anyway, and short lived (I would say the slight initial euphoria is gone within 4-5 minutes, and the few strange feelings that I experience from the stuff are gone within about 1 hour (I couldn’t say the exact duration as I didn’t really checked my watch) 
Needless to say I was very disappointed by this uninteresting compound. 

The effects I had from it were flimsy, there was a definite effect on my vision and my mental state for sure but I would definitely not call it ‘hallucinogenic’. 

Genaro, anonymous test user of adrenochrome

There are other users who have tried unpurified oxidized adrenaline in lieu of purified adrenochrome, but their experiences (stimulation, headache) sound very much like exactly what they administered – degraded adrenaline – and not pure adrenochrome.

This lack of hallucinogenic effect from any form of adrenochrome seems to be a consensus, despite the fact that the “hallucinogenic” nature of old, oxidized, “pink”, medical adrenaline WAS indeed one of the reasons that adrenochrome was investigated as a potential hallucinogen and/or neurotoxin in the first place.

My thinking here is that this is simply the classic ambiguity of the word “hallucinogenic” in pharmacology, ranging from minor visual disturbances to florid, dream-like, false experiences. Adrenochrome appears to cause the former – NOT the latter, which is generally desired by recreational drug users who are interested in hallucinogens.

In any case, what we are talking about with adrenochrome is clearly NOT a useful or attractive recreational drug.


So why is there any REAL interest in adrenochrome?

Why are there PATENTS?

Why are there, in fact, LOTS of patents?

The reason is subtle. Adrenochrome doesn’t really have any uses as a psychiatric drug, but it DOES have use as a hemostatic – to STOP BLEEDING.

Are you starting to see where some of the ideas for the MYTH of adrenochrome came from? From distortion of reality? Good.

The fact is, adrenochrome itself isn’t even a very good hemostat, because it decomposes so quickly. HOWEVER, in organic chemistry, there are KNOWN WAYS to stabilize substances like adrenochrome, and THAT is exactly what was done. The medically useful compounds are DERIVATIVES – specifically what are called CARBONYL DERIVATIVES – of adrenochrome.

What chemists do is take the double-bonded oxygens of adrenochrome – the quinone carbonyls – the things that make it reactive and unstable – and turn one of them into a double-bonded nitrogen with some additional stabilizer atoms attached. This is a NOTORIOUSLY EFFECTIVE TRICK for stabilizing certain molecules, and even for identifying those molecules through the stabilized derivatives. Organic chemists use this technique all the time.

The carbonyl derivatives of adrenochrome are called oximes, hydrazones, and semicarbazones. Almost ALL of these substances are useful as hemostats, and even better, they LACK the neurological effects of adrenochrome itself.

THIS is why adrenochrome is primarily manufactured – as an INTERMEDIATE for other more useful drugs.

That is it. That is the TRUTH about adrenochrome.


SO – now that we know the TRUTH about adrenochrome – how it is neither a pleasing recreational drug, nor something that must be obtained through wicked and murderous methods – we have to ask – why don’t the LIES go away?

Therein lies an even uglier truth. The adrenochrome myth is a typical satanic LIE that generates satanic REALITY by virtue of belief.

There are people who WANT others to believe the myth. And they want others to believe the myth, because it gives them POWER and MONEY. The nature of the power and the money VARY with the audience, but that is just fine with the people who benefit from it. They FOOL everybody, even if they fool them DIFFERENTLY.

Let me explain.


SATAN: Knock, knock.

Who’s there?

Satan.

Satan who?

Satan who can make you pollute your own mind by thinking about sex with children and child murder.

No way!

Your ENEMIES are having sex with stolen children and murdering them for ADRENOCHROME, and then getting HIGH on it!

OMG! My enemies are…..

SATAN: My work is done.


Starting to see how this works? This is a HUGE component of Pizzagate, sadly. Yes, there is real evil. Getting people to obsess about it to the point of unbelievability SPREADS THE EVIL FIRST and PROTECTS IT SECOND.

See how that works? And the adrenochrome isn’t even real. It’s ALL A LIE.

Are you seeing that extra bit of Satan – that hollowness at the end of the deal with the devil – the fact that the drug itself is actually a LIE, and DOESN’T EVEN REALLY WORK?

It gets worse.


SATAN: Knock, knock.

Who’s there?

Satan.

Satan who?

Satan who knows about the ultimate drug.

No way!

Good bye.

OMG! What if this ultimate drug is real?

SATAN: My work is done.


Just because something isn’t TRUE, doesn’t mean that there aren’t people who will not only believe the myth, but who will FEED it, and KEEP IT ALIVE.

And more than THOSE people, who keep the myth alive, there are other people who will pay top dollar to LIVE in the myth.

The debauched world of drugs, sex, money and fame is filled with people who want to believe in the NEXT HIGH of any kind. Those people are sitting on a world of cash.

Normally, I could not sell a pop singer teen celebrity a diverted unit of blood or blood plasma if my life depended on it. But thanks to the MYTH of adrenochrome, I can sell them either of these for absurd amounts of money, by telling them that there is something extra special about the stuff in the bag.

But let’s say that I’m not connected to a highly corrupted humanitarian organization where I can get blood products on the cheap. Doesn’t matter with something as mythical as adrenochrome. I can still sell people literally ANY drug or drug combination as “adrenochrome”, and most people who buy illicit drugs will believe it, at the right price.

People can even make money on the MYTH ITSELF.

Consider this 2017 movie, which is probably most famous for being SUED by Coachella for creating its own imitation festival called “filmchilla” as a marketing device.

The fact that there is a sickening, terrible, grade Z, stoner-cult, gore-cult, Satan-cult, cultural Marxist movie CALLED Adrenochrome should already be setting off alarm bells.

But remember – that’s just how they market the myth to THEMSELVES – the people who LOVE the sickness.

They market the myth to YOU differently.

Like THIS:

It’s ALL disinformation. But just because YOU would not BUY IT, doesn’t mean that OTHERS would not pay good money for it. And the more YOU believe the LIES, the more OTHERS will as well.

Are you seeing how the myth works? The MONEY is the key. But there is also POWER in it. Why? Because if you sell somebody a fake drug ALLEGEDLY from killed children, just IMAGINE what kind of blackmail power that has.

Adrenochrome is more of a satanic lie, than a satanic reality, but it’s still satanic.

Now – even though there MAY NOT REALLY BE some multi-billion dollar adrenochrome industry, I’m willing to bet that there ARE people making a pretty penny on the myth, just like any other illicit drug, and I’ll bet the money gets up into the low millions, or maybe the tens of millions worldwide.

Nothing huge, but NOT non-existent. The “low end” of the market definitely exists.

The main reason that I am CONFIDENT there is a market for an alleged adrenochrome product, is that it would be SIMILAR and PARALLEL to the market for LIFE EXTENSION. That market is among the RICH and POWERFUL, and it is VERY, VERY REAL.

I actually knew, at some point in my life, somebody who I would regard as a “lower-level cabal” member. This was a very anonymous person, but very high in the pantheon of leftist virtue – receiving a kind of weird respect – almost veneration – from very powerful people. This person was also a FANATIC about life extension, spending significant time and money looking for exotic biomedical and biochemical ways to live longer.

Read about Sergey Brin of Google. Same thing. There is an OBSESSION among these very self-important people, about making their important lives last just a wee bit longer.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/31/google-co-founders-and-silicon-valley-billionaires-try-to-live-forever.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-billionaires-life-extension-projects-2015-4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/04/04/tech-titans-latest-project-defy-death/

https://phys.org/news/2013-02-zuckerberg-brin-life.html

The list goes on – VERY long – just “google it”. “Life extension”.

Are these people a market for “young blood transfusions”, and perhaps for some of them, at several times the price, “adrenochrome blood transfusions”?

I have ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT about it.

If you don’t believe me, believe Scientific American, reporting in both skeptical and shocked tones, on the level of interest in “young blood transfusions”, in a case where the tip of the iceberg broke the waterline:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/young-blood-transfusions-are-on-the-menu-at-society-gala/

There are a number of interesting links in the article. Such as this one.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infusions-of-young-blood-tested-in-patients-with-dementia/

This is a very real thing, and the Fake News Media – not unpredictably – “accidentally” promotes the market in hushed but knowing tones. Just look at the articles I cited. Those would have been PARODIES 50 years ago.

See what I keep saying about “fake science”? It goes with fake news and fake entertainment, both of which are really propaganda.

The actual market for [fake] adrenochrome is probably among the more libertine, occult-friendly, drug-taking, and risk-taking segments of the rich and powerful, as opposed to the more self-protecting “life extension” personalities.

Like I said, I’m speculating here, but I think I’m on solid ground. Adrenochrome is an “illicit” drug. People can read about it in a cool book by an establishment-approved author, glorified for years in “Doonesbury”, that was made into a Hollywood movie. There is AUTOMATIC DEMAND.

The more MYTHICAL, the more LEGENDARY, the better.

And wanting to be legendary is – well – quite common.


So there you have it.

This brings us full-circle, back to Hunter S. Thompson. Both the beginning and end of FAKE adrenochrome. The MAKER OF MYTHS was probably also the CONSUMER OF MYTHS – and if not him, then that still falls to the LEGIONS of “adrenochrome” buzz-buzzards that one finds on the internet, searching for information about adrenochrome, some of them hoping to try it. In researching this article, I found them everywhere.

https://youtu.be/1d-B8_pwDnE

My recommendation? Don’t be one of them. Stay the HELL away from the hell of illicit drugs, both REAL and MYTHICAL. But perhaps say a prayer for those who don’t take that advice. Because THOSE folks are very real, and they don’t always live long and prosper.

Having had my own life-long string of follies and recovered errors of other kinds….

Having suffered my own stormy experiences, thinking I was merely going to learn a little science – like perhaps the structure of adrenochrome….

Perhaps none of us really stay on shore….

Perhaps all of us are out there in boats – caught in various tempests….

Even when we don’t think that’s where we are.

Therefore – I propose a toast.

To life. May we all experience it abundantly. And truly. As designed.

W

The Story of Creation

PS – I note the psychologically toxic effects of simply doing this article. There is a lesson in that. There are MANY lessons. Time to do some more reading in the Bible.

Dear MAGA: 20190211 Open Topic

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You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on. Keep it civil. Rules much like the Old Treehouse, except of course Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged. A couple of other important things to consider. This here link….

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Let us further pray that INFANTICIDE never again appears on this planet as an acceptable practice!


Finally, a word about the FEATURED IMAGE (the USS Ronald Reagan) and the name of the day (DISTRUST AND VERIFY BY SECRET METHODS MONDAY).

I had an EPIPHANY here:

https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/02/09/q-its-time-to-return-publicly/comment-page-1/#comment-69259

…. related to Q’s post here:

And further related to a Twitter post here:

https://twitter.com/j_arthur_bloom/status/1093702446000603137

…. and two earlier posts of mine HERE:

https://wqth.wordpress.com/2018/11/22/darkness-to-light-eckerts-law/

…. and HERE:

https://wqth.wordpress.com/2018/12/06/occams-razor-tool-of-deception/

My key conclusions in the comment are these:

Here is an interesting fact of disinformation which again comes back to the entire PRINCIPLE of chaff – that chaff FEEDS the Occam’s razor of military machinery (the brains of the missile), by touching logic OUTSIDE ITS PROGRAMMING (the coolness of Occam intersecting with Turing in the region of Eckert’s Law is NOT TO BE DENIED, folks…)

ANY CHAFF SCENARIO PRESENTED TO A TRUSTING AUDIENCE WILL HAVE MORE APPARENT REALITY THAN A DISTRUSTFUL SCENARIO WHICH MORE CLOSELY ALIGNS WITH FACTS WITHHELD FROM THAT AUDIENCE.

This is simply how “magic” works. But now I want you to ask you WHO tells you this:

TRUST BUT VERIFY

I will tell you who tells you that. A magician who is so skilled in what they are doing, that they know exactly how you will verify, and have prepared for it.

I offer a new solution.

DISTRUST AND KEEP VERIFICATION METHODS HIDDEN

-Wolf Moon, The Q Tree

The implications for history – that we did not do this – or at least publicly went along with the opposite – are ASTOUNDING. To me, this is MASSIVE validation of my theory of Stefan Halper, and how he intersects two critical points in our nation’s history – the NIXON and REAGAN administrations. The fact that he and the forces behind him TOOK OUT NIXON but NOT REAGAN is one of the most fascinating chapters in geopolitics EVER. I do not have the complete set of answers about WHY things happened the way they did, but I can see that WHAT HAPPENED vis-a-vis the forces of the left and the countering strategies of both Nixon and Reagan opens up that entire portion of the game to a FRESH analysis.

Stay tuned for more.

AND DON’T FORGET THE TRUMP RALLY TONIGHT!!!

W

AMEN!
OH, WE’RE HAVIN’ SOME FUN NOW, GIPPER!

Occam's Razor, Tool of Deception

I was originally going to entitle this post something else – something cuter and more grandiose about “my life-long sword-fight with Occam’s razor“.  Hence the opening image.  However, that goal was WAY too big for a blog post.  I could literally write a book on it.

The fact is, I have MANY issues with Occam’s razor in science and other forms of investigation, and most of them don’t deal with deception.  They deal with progress in science, more than anything else.  Although the modern intrusions of leftist deception politics into science are changing that balance very rapidly. 

Some scientists tend to shave too closely with Occam’s razor.  Nothing grows.  There is no imagination – no progress.  It is easier to sit tight on a small set of highly validated principles, and not reach out to try something new.

Others don’t shave at all, and “fluffy” no-way-in-hell theory grows with abandon.   Such theories approach the ad hoc nature that Occam’s razor was specifically intended to prevent.  Instead of angels on pinheads, embarrassing numbers of never-to-be-found particles and whatnot are predicted, proposed, or just rumored.

Those are big topics.  Addressing all of that, plus the use of Occam’s razor for deception, would be a tall order.  Best left for our wonderful commenters, already discussing these things just on the rumor of my finally posting this piece.

While sleeping on this post (earlier), I realized that I needed to keep things simple, and ONLY talk about how Occam’s razor behaves under deception.  Thus, I came up with a much simpler and more powerful statement of the principle at hand.  Then, I decided to pound that statement into people’s heads, by repeating it, over and over.

Occam’s razor is a tool of deception.

Wolf Moon

Actually, that’s not giving credit where credit is due.

Occam’s razor is a tool of deception.

Anonymous author of KGB-CIA manual read by various people Wolf Moon has known

Actually, that’s not big enough.  It needs to be a nice big headline.

Occam’s razor is a tool of deception.

There.  That’s better!  And THAT is why I changed the title.  If I’m going to repeat a headline over and over, why not just make it the title, too?  That way people won’t have to dig for it.  The conclusion is RIGHT THERE.  To review for the big picture, people don’t even have to re-read this post.

Now, I can’t tell you ALL of the reasons why I believe this, but my motto serves as a kind of proof that the opening image and would-be title are justified – that I’ve had to FIGHT Occam’s razor all my life.  Indeed, I chose my motto carefully, after years of fighting my way up from a state of blissful ignorance, to one of satisfied but battle-scarred awareness.

It is better to be right than to be believed.

Wolf Moon

Being right does not come easily in this world, because DECEPTION is everywhere.  And deception is everywhere for a beautiful reason, which a better understanding of OCCAM’S RAZOR makes clear:

Occam’s razor is a protector of deception.

Yeah.  You’re going to hear that a LOT of things linking Occam’s razor not with FINDING truth, but rather with HIDING truth.

So what the hell IS Occam’s razor?  Other than a tool of deception?

OK – that’s not really Occam’s razor.  This is more like it.

When we are faced with more than one hypothesis that explains the data equally well, we choose the simpler explanation.

Occam’s razor

Now, the fact that many CORRECT answers ARE complex, and so many simple ones fail, or at least it sure SEEMS that way, makes the following cartoon funny.

We see in the cartoon an idea that LOOKS like Occam’s razor because it deals with simple versus complex, but also seems to say the opposite.  Yet the cartoon seems to say something intuitively obvious and wearily true – that many answers are simple but wrong, and the fewer that ARE correct, are generally complicated. 

This seems at first to be at odds with Occam’s razor, but it’s not – because it’s NOT Occam’s razor, nor is it a derivative thereof.  It just looks like Occam’s razor.  Stop for a moment and think about that.  The cartoon is talking about the fact that it sure seems to us humans that REAL answers tend to be few and complex – while too-simple and WRONG answers seem to abound.  That is MUCH DIFFERENT from saying that for TWO OR MORE theories that explain the same set of facts, the SIMPLEST theory tends to be correct.

In fact, if you CONFUSE these two principles, then you have just seen why

Occam’s razor is a tool of deception.

That is worth an explanation.  You see, there is an old saw about simple versus complex.  It’s called Occam’s razor.  When people talk about simple versus complex, they ALMOST ALWAYS cite Occam’s razor.  So if a person does a cartoon about simple versus complex, and they say something that seems to be both TRUE and the OPPOSITE of Occam’s razor, it looks like a paradox – like Occam’s razor is “wrong or something”. 

Well, it’s the “or something”.  The cartoon has successfully, without trying very hard, mimicked Occam’s razor.  And MIMICRY is a form of DECEPTION.  You were led into a mistake by a cartoon.

Thus, in a very ironic way, the ubiquity of Occam’s razor ITSELF was used to deceive.  The SIMPLEST answer – “a person talking about simple versus complex is talking about Occam’s razor” – was used to deceive you, and then lead you past deception to paradox, at which point you do a “WTF” and laughed.

Now – there are MANY WAYS to express the principles underlying the fact that

Occam’s razor is a tool of deception.

One of the simplest is the one that our own wheatietoo uses all the time.  This is the idea that

Occam’s razor can fail when you don’t have all the information.

And if somebody WANTS it to fail for you, this is WHY

Occam’s razor is a tool of deception.

As an example, let’s consider the “Bigfoot” example above. 

“A hairy creature in the woods is more likely a bear than Bigfoot.”
-Occam’s Razor

If you see an upright, bipedal, very hairy creature in the woods, you have almost certainly seen a BEAR.   We have an ordinary explanation.  No need to state anything fancy.  THAT is Occam’s razor, right there.

But what if the “hairy creature in the woods” had a flat face and no snout – basically a hominid face – and this was seen with extreme clarity, so there is almost no possibility for error?  If that is the case, then the simple explanation of a bear goes out the window.  There is the possibility of a highly deformed or accidentally de-snouted bear, but such a thing will not live long in the wild.  A truly flat-faced bear is pretty much DOA at birth.  HOWEVER, we can switch to the SIMPLER theory that it’s a GORILLA – possibly escaped from a zoo – and we have basically been rescued by Occam’s razor.

But let’s not stop there.  Let’s say that the thing was seen with extreme clarity.  The witness KNOWS what a gorilla looks like, and it was NOT a gorilla.  Let’s say that we have a clear enough view of it that it looks exactly like “Bigfoot”.

Now – we can believe two things here.

  • It was a “real” Bigfoot.
  • It was somebody in a Bigfoot suit, DECEIVING US.

Which one of these alternatives is the one favored by Occam’s razor?  That is actually a very good question.  To an honest naturalist in the woods of Washington or Oregon in 1910, when “cryptozoology” was still somewhat possible, a “real” animal of some sort would have seemed more likely.  The idea of somebody using a suit to deceive a naturalist would have sounded fantastic, and would require far more explanation than a new species of animal.

But in 2010, with many more “Bigfoot costumes” in existence than reported visual sightings of Bigfoot in all of history, the prediction FLIPS, because we have NEW INFORMATION.  We have to allow for DECEPTION as a kind of additional information.

BIGFOOT DECEPTION is now ORDINARY.  BIGFOOT REALITY remains rather EXTRAORDINARY.

Now – what if you’re a modern person, but your knowledge is like that of a naturalist in 1910?  What if you are not AWARE of what deceptions are POSSIBLE?  In that case you will use Occam’s razor on the WRONG DATA SET.  You will be DECEIVED, and Occam’s razor, operating on insufficient data, will AID THE DECEPTION.

This is how magic works, folks.  The SIMPLE and OBVIOUS explanation is WRONG.  Hidden complexity is used to FOOL YOU.  YOU don’t have all the information.  By HIDING information, you are led to USE Occam’s razor with too little information, and come to the wrong conclusion.

Now with magic, we know we are being fooled.  But then again, nobody has to TELL YOU that you are experiencing a magic show.

Welcome to DISINFORMATION.

And this is the most important part.  It doesn’t have to be something extraordinary like Bigfoot.  I could just be trying to convince you of an ordinary fact.  That is not true.

Let me repeat that.  If I try to convince you of an OBVIOUS, SIMPLE NON-EXTRAORDINARY THING, but it’s really a complicated, deceptive story that benefits me, Occam’s razor just turned into MY advantage, and MY survival tool.

Two words.

Insect mimicry.

The simple explanation is that it’s a THORN.  It’s not.  It’s a LEAF-HOPPER.

The simple explanation is that it’s a LEAF.  It’s not.  It’s a BUTTERFLY.

The simple explanation is that it’s a BEE.  It’s not.  It’s a FLY. 

The simple explanation is that it’s LICHEN.  It’s not.  It’s a MOTH.

The simple explanation is that it’s a FLOWER PETAL.  It’s not.  It’s a SPIDER / MANTIS / ASSASSIN BUG.

If you look MORE CLOSELY at any one of these, you get MORE INFORMATION, and go “OH SHIT, LOOK AT THAT!” and see the coolness of the DECEPTION.  What has happened is that MORE INFORMATION changed the output of Occam’s razor.  You now have MORE FACTS.

One might say that:

Occam’s razor is dependent upon the observer, whereas truth is not.

Now – back to an explanation of Occam’s razor which deals with “ordinary” versus “extraordinary”:

One has to be very careful here.  ORDINARY and EXTRAORDINARY are likely to flip back and forth as FACTS BECOME KNOWN, as our EXPERIENCE with those facts increases, and as the validity of those facts CHANGES.

BLACK HOLES were at one time EXTRAORDINARY.  Now they are NOT.

Relativistic effects in general were at one time EXTRAORDINARY.  Now they are NOT.

Atomic energy was at one time EXTRAORDINARY.  Now it is NOT.

Talking to somebody on the other side of the world was once EXTRAORDINARY.  Now it is ORDINARY.

Aluminum was at one time EXTRAORDINARY and PRECIOUS.  Now it is COMMON and can be used for TIN FOIL HATS. 

There is a reason the INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES try to stay ahead of the curve, BUELLER.  It is so THEY have all the FACTS and YOU DON’T.

Are you starting to see the picture now? 

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER WHEN THE OTHER PERSON DOESN’T HAVE IT.

In other words, it’s not really knowledge that is power.  It’s a DIFFERENTIAL in knowledge that is power.

Now – put this in reality terms.  This point about Ordinary vs. Extraordinary is very important for assisting DECEPTION.  If I can HIDE the formerly extraordinary as MY ordinary, I can almost guarantee that the SUCKER will pick the known ORDINARY explanation.  But if I LOSE the SECRET of my extraordinary, it becomes the TARGET’S ordinary, and they are no longer fooled.

WELCOME TO MY WORLD.

Now – even in deception, Occam’s razor still operates.  If you have all the information, and there are two ways you can be fooled, the SIMPLER ONE is probably the RIGHT ONE.

If you are being deceived about ORDINARY STUFF and there are competing ORDINARY EXPLANATIONS, you are very likely to MISS EVERYTHING.  The same goes for TWO COMPETING EXTRAORDINARY EXPLANATIONS.  If there is deception, you can use Occam’s razor to pick the wrong one, by picking the SIMPLER of the two, if you don’t know all the facts.

And THAT is where we are led into one of the most EXTRAORDINARY events in modern history.

Next time, in:

9/11: From Believer to Skeptic

See you then!

W

“History is a great teacher, but she makes us do a LOT of homework.”