For his part, Osbourne was at first skeptical about the project, he explained in his October 24 Sunday Times of London column. But the platinum-record artist then began to wonder if he, in fact, might have something to offer science.
"I was curious," he wrote in his column. "Given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years—not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol…you name it—there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....&print=true I haven't listened to any music he's made since I "won" tickets to hear Black Sabbath back in the 1970's! I spent the entire concert as far from the stage as I could get! I could believe lots of things about our modern day caveman!