Thinking about boosting school exam performance? For everything else, there's nootropics. Pop them like Skittles and get OD'd. 
Posted on 10/04/2009 1:18:43 AM PDT by myknowledge
Students should be allowed to take “smart drugs” to boost their performance in exams, according to an academic.
The use of drugs such as modafinil and Ritalin is no worse than sending children to a private tutor, said Vince Cakic, from the department of psychology at Sydney University.
The comments are made in an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Some academics have claimed that smart drugs, or “nootropics”, which are often widely available over the internet, should be banned over long-term safety fears.
Mr Cakic said universities in the future may attempt to impose random urine tests to root out drug cheats.
But he insisted that doping had already failed to properly clean up sport and insisted a more liberal approach needed to be adopted in academia.
“Prohibiting nootropics would not even the playing field, because there never was an even playing field to begin with,” he said. “To be sure, nootropics would probably make an already uneven playing field more unfair, and one that is likely only to favour the wealthy who can afford to purchase them.
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Thinking about boosting school exam performance? For everything else, there's nootropics. Pop them like Skittles and get OD'd.
Yeah, we'd all rather drug the kids than subject them to private tutoring. /s
We need Nootropics in the Stimulus Package/sarc
At the ULL College of Nursing, in the graduating class of Fall 2008, 83% of the students used adderal to stay awake to study or complete assigned work. ...and ativan to relax, either by obtaining the prescriptions themselves or getting the drugs from classmates who had the prescriptions.
The use of drugs such as modafinil and Ritalin is no worse than sending children to a private tutor,
Students are going to know a certain amount of the material, and they are going to be able to correctly respond to questions about that material at some rate during an exam. Tutors (should) increase the amount of material that they know, while drugs may temporarily increase their ability to correctly respond to questions that are about stuff they know. Not quite the same thing.
As for the "fairness" question, could not the rich use both tutors and drugs?
These people are so sick. Drug them so they won’t resist.
I hear Mark McGuire and Manny Ramirez will face off in a US - DR chess match.
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