With great fanfare, last year a study was published that linked ecstasy with causing Parkinson’s disease. Well, they retracted the study.
George Ricaurte, the Johns Hopkins Medical School researcher who performed the research, said his lab did not administer ecstasy, or MDMA, but methamphetamine, to the primates in the study.
Pretty serious mistake, I’d say. You give a bunch of monkeys speed, they going to have the shakes. Someone at the foundation is going to be extremely angry with these fellows. That’s like setting up a test to link drowsiness with drinking warm milk and using coffee instead. This comes especially troubling since the test seemed to refute the mounting evidence that ecstacy could help the symptoms of Parkinson’s.
Who knows? Who cares? As long as the DEA, FBI, and Ashcroft have something to link with terrorism, then everything is okay in Amurika.