Recently, Chris Good, of The Atlantic, has argued that scientists ought to be given performance enhancing drugs; not anabolic steroids, mind you, but rather, cognition enhancing drugs that are currently off-limits due to legality. Hallucinogens (LSD, for creativity), stimulants (Ritalin, for example, to help with focus), and other medications could conceivably be used by scientists and doctors to speed the rate at which they discover a cure for AIDS, Cancer, and a host of other deadly diseases.
When thousands of people dying each day from thus-far-incurable diseases, discovering a cure as quickly as possible would save the maximum amount of lives. Read the full article, and decide for yourself:
In our culture, performance-enhancing drugs are seen as a vehicle for cheating. For example, athletes who use steroids or human growth hormone are weeded out through testing policies,