People had been talking about the tan before he showed up and giving it legendary status, he probably read the thread then came up with his story to stir excitement that led to 1000 posts of dead end anti climactic nothingness.
He told me that the Chinese were using bacteria to alter the drug and produce these extreme effects and that's what he was trying to replicate in his quorum sensing lab and assured me he's telling the truth because he's McAfee after all, a celebrity, why would he lie!
Anyway, considering one of our own members who helped this whole thing snowball out of control was also someone who thought that local anarchists had devised a frequency that makes you shit your pants when blasted from a speaker on a nearby hill (whilst you also happen to be K-holing and losing touch with reality

) - it's safe to say people will believe all sorts of shit when they're high on drugz.