Hi y'all - I'm all for tampering with jeans... sorry genes. If manipulation can eradicate cancer etc, it is worth the risk. Humanity has always taken risks for the greater good.
On Jan 13, 10:35 am, CrossBow <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm plenty interested in them (though not for self-experimentation) > because people are using them without long term study of the effects on the > brain (like most drugs). Yeah, sure, the military have been using them for > years to keep pilots situationally uber-aware on long missions, but they > also cooked up agent-O (someone did for them). Now the general population > can get them? BIG fat RED flag! > > Just wonder where we are going to evolve to and if these drugs effect the > brain in very good ways the studies/results will be a precursor to where we > are going, or a possible direction for geneticists to go. You know they are > going to do it without approval. Seeing loads of programs on Science channel > examining genetic manipulation and the possible detrimental effects of > taking away natural selection. I think I would rather have the drug than > have our genes tampered with, at least for now. > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Liz Purkrabek <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am not an advocate for unnecessary drugs either. > > > Liz > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > ornamentalmind > > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:46 PM > > To: Memphis Freethought Alliance > > Subject: Re: SMART DRUGS? > > > About 15-20 years ago, I tried a hand full of different 'smart drugs'. > > While each had it's own effect, overall, I found the results to in > > fact be a reduction of awareness. I stopped experimenting. > > > On Jan 12, 2:08 pm, "Liz Purkrabek" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was prescribed Provigil once by a sleep and lung doctor who diagnosed > > me > > > with idiopathic hypersomnia (otherwise known as, "you're sleepy all the > > time > > > and we don't know why."). I never took it because I was breastfeeding my > > > daughter at the time and I didn't want to mess with her little baby mind. > > I > > > still have the box of samples that the doctor gave to me. > > > > From: [email protected] > > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > CrossBow > > > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:08 PM > > > To: Memphis Freethought Alliance > > > Subject: SMART DRUGS? > > > > PROVIGIL users out there? > > > >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/my-experiment-with-smart_b_.. > > .. > > > html > > > > -- > > > gnothe se auton > > -- > gnothe se auton- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
