The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/21/pulitzer/index.html
Monday, April 27, 2009
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The Messy Future of Memory-Editing Drugs
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/memoryedit.html
The development of a drug that controls a chemical used to form memories sparked heady scientific and philosophical speculation this week.
Granted, the drug has only been tested in rats, but other memory-blunting drugs are being tried in soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder. It might not be long before memories are pharmaceutically targeted, just as moods are now.
Some think this represents an opportunity to eliminate the crippling psychic effects of past trauma. Others see an ill-advised chemical intrusion into an essential human facility that threatens to replace our ability to understand and cope with life's inevitabilities.
Oxford University neuroethicist Anders Sandberg spoke with Wired.com about the future of memory-editing drugs. In some ways, said Sandberg, our memories are already being altered. We just don't realize it.
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