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Now scientists are taking performance-enhancing drugs too! - 4/9/2008 6:55:26 PM

Lordandmaster

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080409/ts_afp/healthscienceresearchersdrugs

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Twenty percent of scientists admit to using performance-enhancing prescription drugs for non-medical reasons, according to a survey released Wednesday by Nature, Britain's top science journal.

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RE: Now scientists are taking performance-enhancing dru... - 4/9/2008 6:59:07 PM

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No! Who would have thought, aye?

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Twenty percent of scientists admit to using performance-enhancing prescription drugs for non-medical reasons, according to a survey released Wednesday by Nature, Britain's top science journal.

The overwhelming majority of these med-taking brainiacs said they indulged in order to "improve concentration," and 60 percent said they did so on a daily or weekly basis.

It's for a good cause. How else would they fish out all these designer medications if they weren't as high as kites themselves? Still, I wonder how they obtain them in the first place, hmmmm? The following struck me as particularly poignant:

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More than a third said that they would feel pressure to give their children such drugs if they knew other kids at school were also taking them.

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RE: Now scientists are taking performance-enhancing dru... - 4/9/2008 8:31:52 PM

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And to think, a scientist would know better after reading Dr Jeckle & Mr Hyde, The Nutty Professor, and other Sci Fi drama where the Dr uses drugs to better inhance themselves.

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