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Is it any wonder that my mind's on fire Imprisoned by the thoughts of what to do

Here at the Riddled Fermented-Milk Products Department, it is with great pleasure mixed with an expectation of financial compensation that we award the inaugural Cheese Promotion Cup to Blum, Febo & Badgaiyan for their ground-breaking advances in scientific illustration:

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Only eat non-addictive brains, people!

Frivolous younglings, you are not taking this seriously. The intention of Figure 13 is to dramatise the heartbreak of Addictive Brain, and how to cure it through dietary supplements like KB220Z, which will bind up your brain in the manner of a well-aged fromage.

Some people have defective brain-chemistry neuroreceptors that force them to crave stimulation, so they seek out dangerous situations involving flying skwirls or rats on strings.
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Or they drink recklessly and solicit furtive but semi-public handjobs... possibly unmindful that a surveillance painter has been installed in the Wigglesworth Lounge of the Old Entomologist since last month's regrettable episode with the pinball machine.

In other cases the risky but stimulating behaviour manifests as an addiction to writing ostensibly-scholarly papers, but illustrating them with garish WTF diagrams -- not entirely persuasive, and seemingly drawn in the throes of a tequila hangover -- then paying low-life predatory publishers to put them on line, as if daring us to point and laugh:
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Figure 9 Schematic representation of Brain Reward Cascade. Happy Brain feeling of well-being [38] with permission.

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Figure 7 Cartoon showing that raising brain endorphines with the known enkephalinase inhibitor D-Phenyalanine metabolite Hydrocinnamic Acid blocks alcohol craving.

What was going though the authors' heads? Apart from a hypodermic needle full of Hydrocinnamic Acid to raise brain endorphines.

The skeezy little mockademic scammers facilitating the risk were in this case "Austin Publishing Group", yet another gaggle of grifters from Hyderabad (two of our reckless authors -- Blum and Badgaiyan -- feature on the Editorial Board of "Austin Addiction Sciences").

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Tell us more about Dr Blum's ideas, Uncle Smut!

You are in luck, importunate younglings! Anticipating your request, I have scoured the fringe literature to learn about dopamine-pathway dysfunction, and how this causes the "Reward Deficiency Syndrome" underlying addictive behaviours, and how this can be treated with the dietary supplement neuroadaptagen KB202z, alias SynaptaGenX, alias Synaptamine™, alias Synaptose, marketed by K. Blum's companies.

Figure 7 above ['Happy Brain feeling of wellbeing'] originally appeared in Blum et al. (2012), "Neurogenetics and Nutrigenomics of Neuro-Nutrient Therapy for Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS)", from Journal of Addiction Research Therapy. Where JART is a journal-shaped dumpster from the skiving wazzcocks of OMICS Publishing Group, with Kenneth Blum as quondam Editor-i-C.
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Blum has squeezed out a further 22 publications through various OMICS spigots, and regularly appears as Keynote Speaker at OMICS scamferences; his dedication to publishing is tireless, prolific, compulsive, and possibly treatable with KB202z.

Further below the bottom of the publishing barrel, Dr Blum can be found pimping his products through spamming, shameless OMICS-wannabee mooks like Jacobs,
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ClinMed,
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and SCIRP: *
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Looking for the bottom of the barrel
These are all slight variations on a common theme, roughly as follows:
  • Aberrant allelles of a few genes cause dysfunction in the dopanergic pathways;
  • Reward Deficiency Syndrome is a Protean phenomenon that can variously manifest as opiate addiction, thrill-seeking, alcoholism, sex / porn addiction, eating disorders, problem gambling, lucid dreaming and possibly country dancing;
  • A simple though trademarked Neurogenetic test (GARS™) can tell whether an individual will develop RDS, for the benefit of potential employers and other interested parties -- contact Kenneth Blum for more information about Genetic Addiction Risk Score™;
  • RDS can be treated with the right mixture of dopamine precursors and herbs;
  • America will not be great again until the world accepts the reality of RDS and the prescient unrecognised genius of Kenneth Blum.**
Reckless Sleeper [Magritte, 1928] with A1 allelle
of Taq1A polymorphism for dopamine D2 receptor
DRD2 gene: oblivious to risk of lucid dreaming
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NO I confess, I stole all this from the earlier inquiries of Neuroskeptic. Neuroskeptic has been working that side of the street for long enough to accumulate precedence and expertise in this academic field of Advanced Blum Studies.

Here is the gist of the story: Blum's main contribution to the sum total of gnowledge dates back to 1990, when he announced the isolation of the genetic basis of all addiction. Subsequent replications of that discovery have been erratic, and largely confined to research groups associated with Blum et al.; it is all reminiscent of the paradigmatic Gene for Homosexuality, which is rediscovered at roughly five-year intervals, to much media furore, on a different chromosome each time.

But this has not deterred Blum from monetarising his methods for detecting and ameliorating incipient addiction, with a range of companies and websites, some now vanished and known only to the Wayback Machine. Multilevel Marketing is involved; also liposomes, and nanotechnology, to ensure that the magic amino mix survives digestion and crosses the blood-brain barrier. Also RDS conferences! -- organised through Blum's OMICS-clone company"United Scientific Group"... Neuroskeptic classes these as a commercial venture on account of the pay-to-play aspect, and the relentless spam solicitations, which begin in true Hyderabad style with "Greetings for the Day!" This is the short version, but there is clearly enough material for a Journal of Advanced Blum Studies.

That does not exist, but what we have instead is the "Journal of Reward Deficiency Syndrome" (now "J. Reward Defic. Syndr. & Addiction Sci.")... published by United Scientific Group, through "blumsrewarddeficiencysyndrome.com". The Editor-in-Chief is Kenneth Blum, and the first issue was largely written by Blum, about KB202z and such.

It is not clear why Blum spreads himself so widely and pumps so much money as 'processing fees' into the parasitic-publication industry, when he runs his own mockademic outlet.
This man needs more dopamine
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* Should not forget Frontiers in Bioscience, from a publisher noted for its unconventional publishing model; our old friend Medical Hypotheses; and the first issue of a Bangalore e-journal with little Interlattice footprint, with Blum as first author but written in a language barely recognisable as English.Image may be NSFW.
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Blum's frequent co-author R. Badgaiyan can also be found on the Editorial Boards of Sciepub, Bio-Accent, BioInfo, Avens, Sciencedomain International, and MedCrave, perhaps by way of apology to these egregious little shitweasels for failing to send any Blum-Badgaiyan press releases their way. Or perhaps he is competing with Dr George Perry for indiscriminate editorial promiscuity.

** Blum's original Whackyweedia entry is entertaining [H/t to "g05b"]:
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I missed one! It never occurred to me that Blum would use the services of the third-generational Hyderabad scammers at "Peertechz" -- yes, that is really what they called their company -- because on a Scale of Griftiness from 1 to 10, Peertechz is up there at "Potato". What kind of nimrod would associate himself with a pack of gombeens called "Peertechz"?!
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This is just embarrassing.

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