'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common

runamock writes "The Los Angeles Times is running a story on the growing use of 'mind drugs': 'Forget sports doping. The next frontier is brain doping. ... Despite the potential side effects, academics, classical musicians, corporate executives, students and even professional poker players have embraced the drugs to clarify their minds, improve their concentration or control their emotions. Unlike the anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and blood-oxygen boosters that plague athletic competitions, the brain drugs haven't provoked similar outrage. People who take them say the drugs aren't giving them an unfair advantage but merely allow them to make the most of their hard-earned skills.'" There's an interesting comment on this topic in Fresh Air's top cultural trends of 2007 broadcast.

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Re:The Cure for Blacks and Hispanics?

[Anonymous Coward]

While it is true that each population group has adapted to its local environment, saying that intelligence is a relative term is quite fallacious. Intelligence is essentially the capacity to synthesize and assimilate knowledge. Europeans and East Asians have certainly mastered agriculture, so the idea of intelligence being relative is rather debunked.

The fact of the matter is that people of lower IQ do not fit into western society very well. Blacks and hispanics do poorly in our society but Whites and East Asians succeed very well.