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The Origins of Adrenochrome
Matt Welch: adrenochrome is drawing on and modeling itself on blood libel, a conspiracy theory dating back to the Middle Ages that Jewish people drink or use the blood of Christian children for their religious rituals. Welch: It's designed specifically to incite violence, like that is what blood libel is for. But then there's also the fact that the main purveyors of adrenochrome, like Alex Jones, say that it actually dates back to that. And if you look at these adrenochrome memes, one sort of popular one that goes around has this very obviously medieval image of a baby being drained of blood with people standing around it.
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