The Health Factory

In an amazing article in Nature, the international weekly journal of science , it is recommended that dangerous mind-altering psych drugs be given to healthy people, preferably university students. The journal bases this incredible statement on a survey, taken at university campuses, which found that 7% of the students use psych meds to increase their exam scores and study performance, on some campuses it’s 25%. Note that the other 93% to 75% use the old-fashioned method of just studying your books and materials.

“In this article,” says the journal, “we propose actions that will help society accept the benefits of enhancement, given appropriate research and evolved regulation. Prescription drugs are regulated as such not for their enhancing properties but primarily for considerations of safety and potential abuse. Still, cognitive enhancement has much to offer individuals and society, and a proper societal response will involve making enhancements available while managing their risks.”

The “enhancement” referred to consists of drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall, blacklisted by numerous watchdog agencies as unsafe and dangerous, causing side effects ranging from heart attacks to violence and death (either suicide or homicide – pick your choice).

Now, if you question the oxymoron of a magazine called “Nature” advocating psych meds for healthy people, they have a ready answer for you in the same article:

“As for an appeal to the ‘natural’, the lives of almost all living humans are deeply unnatural; our homes, our clothes and our food — to say nothing of the medical care we enjoy — bear little relation to our species’ ‘natural’ state. Given the many cognitive-enhancing tools we accept already, from writing to laptop computers, why draw the line here and say, thus far but no further?”

Yes, you read this correctly! In other words, you’re eating double-double bacon and cheese burgers too, you’re wearing polyester clothes and you use hair extensions, so why not just throw a bottle of Ritalin in the equation?

You’re not natural anyway, so who cares?

Wow!

A look further into this puffery finds that Nature hired several “experts” to put this article together – two of which are on Big Pharma’s payroll, naturally.

Mike Adams of the Natural News Network puts it this way: “Once again, the answer is obvious: It’s all about monopolizing the profits on drugs. Big Pharma wants you to buy THEIR drugs, and the only difference between a legal drug vs. an illegal drug is who profits from it. Everything that makes money for Big Pharma will be legal. Everything that competes with pharma profits will be outlawed. Even when they’re all the same chemicals!”

I suggest you read the Nature article and write the people who wrote the article (emails are listed). Tell them to take some Ritalin or Adderall and try it out to see if they feel more “enhanced”. And don’t be surprised that at least one of them will find himself dangling at the end of a rope or engage in a shoot-out at the nearest MacDonald. He wasn’t “natural” anyway, wasn’t he?

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7223/full/456702a.html

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