Article of New York Times, March 9th, 2008.
SO far no one is demanding that asterisks be attached to Nobels,
Pulitzers or Lasker awards. Government agents have not been raiding
anthropology departments, riffling book bags, testing professors’
urine. And if there are illicit trainers on campuses, shady tutors with
wraparound sunglasses and ties to basement labs in Italy, no one has
exposed them.
Yet an era of doping may be looming in academia, and it has ignited a debate about policy and ethics...
...One person who posted anonymously on the Chronicle of Higher Education Web site said that a daily regimen of three 20-milligram doses of Adderall transformed his career: “I’m not talking about being able to work longer hours without sleep (although that helps),” the posting said. “I’m talking about being able to take on twice the responsibility, work twice as fast, write more effectively, manage better, be more attentive, devise better and more creative strategies.”...
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