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It turns out if you actually dig into it, he s actually quoting a document that was produced by senator tom coburn back in 2012 looking at this study of japanese quail and cocaine use. the study itself ended in 2016, so this hasn t even been done at any point in the past five years, but not only is he using this outdated data, he s also using this number, this 356 whatever dot 140. the 140 isn t a cents. it s not as though he s trying to inflate the scale of this. it s actually a footnote marker from the original report pointing to footnote 140 which explains where that dollar figure comes from. so not only is it not an exaggeration of millions, it s just a typo. it s so good. so this is a 2011 tom coburn report on some study that actually was funded, right? the national institute of health, which funds a lot of basic research i don t know. maybe it would be useful to know what the coked up quails are ....