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Thursday, April 10th, 2008Are scientists who take drugs like Ritalin or Provigil for clarity and to be productive “doping?” Are they “cheating” at learning?
That the question would even be asked shows just how utterly ridiculous the fear of pharmacology has gotten.
Bonus: The lede to the Nature article was actually an April Fool’s Day joke.
Life and satire move an inch closer to convergence.
I’m so excited, I’m so excited, I’m so, I’m so…scared…
Don’t worry Jesse. Remember that time we snuck out of the house to ride our bikes to ET? Remember how scared we were?
pretty soon they will be drug testing nobel prize canidates for ‘academic doping’. if you fail the test you have your prize stripped. how dare you take something that increases your brain power!
Great headline. I referenced that episode last week in class, and most of my students had never seen it. I felt truly disconnected from them, and quite old, for the first time.
The headline really brightened up my morning. SBTB FTW!
I don’t understand why it’s so hard for some people to understand there’s a difference between the real world and games which by definition have artificial rules. I’m against Congress banning steroids because they’re supposed to legislate in the real world. However, I favor Major League Baseball banning steroids because, as a fan and consumer, I don’t like the idea of young players having to decide between their long-term health and their career when I find the game just as entertaining when played “clean.” That debate aside, the bottom line is you can’t cheat at something without rules and there are no rules to learning. What’s next? Stripping the Beatles of their gold records because they were recorded with the aid of performance-enhancing drugs?
Oh, and for the record, it was common knowledge at Bayside that Slater was on the juice. You could sense the roid rage every time he derisively called Zack “preppie.”
CMS,
Not a big sports fan here but I have to agree. Personally, I would be interested in seeing a “natural league” and an “enhanced league” that way player’s could make their own choices and excel in whichever capacity they felt comfortable with. If everybody is doping, then there is no advantage just longer, stronger home runs.
Johnny Dakota was such a douche. What kind of grown man burns one in a high school bathroom?