Editor's Blog
February 22, 2010
Do smart drugs give students an unfair advantage? Is that coffee in your piss or are you just glad to see me? Where does it end, with students and athletes held in isolation from any unnatural advantages for a week before contests or exams? No fish?(This smells fishy) But wait, is isolation an unnatural advantage? Calling Dr. Lilly.
But seriously:
"Universities must investigate measures, including random dope testing, to tackle the increasing use of cognitive enhancement drugs by students for exams, a leading behavioural neuro scientist warns."
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2 Comments
Seems to me like this is what they call a “pretext”. Random dope testing would NOT BE GOOD for university students, at least none of the ones I know. As if they’re only going to search for fuckin modanafil or something… “Well, you’re positive for LSD Methamphetamine, marijuana, and cocaine, but no pirecetam! good to go.” Another step closer to police state…
the brain runs on sugar, so I guess that would mean no more sodas or candy on campus.
Or, being that these are universities, maybe someone there is smart enough to realize that the smart-drugs allow for more efficient use of what someone already knows without teaching them anything new, and that someone who’s never attended class, never done the coursework, but shows up for the final hopped up on smart-drugs is still going to get a low score.