Actually, I'm gonna put this out for a RT: any colleagues in biomedicine interested in collaborating with a humanities scholar >
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> in researching the spread and dissemination of "nootropic" drug use in online communities, esp. those associated w/neomasculinity?
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it's such a weird cultural link but it's a very strong one
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something to do with this bristling against the whole concept of accepting limitations handed to you by the world
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In 2009, I decided to pursue a career researching assholes on the Internet. I had no idea how far that would take me.
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one of their strong foundational beliefs is we could be living in a smart-drug-fueled utopia if not for government regulators
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there's a conspiracy theory going round that MKULTRA was killed bc they discovered LSD cures autism or something
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Hah! knowing a fair bit about both autism and that compound... hah, no. I mean, yes, probably has some medical use
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but people are off in fucking alchemy-land in the alt-internet when it comes to "mind enhancement"
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they really are getting high and they don't know it. It's not alt-drugs, it's "nootropics"!
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I'm actually thinking I should blow this open as an academic thing. Doctors don't know about this stuff, and they should.
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We've got a generation of young men who are turning their brains into guinea pigs with Cold War chemicals so they can troll
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