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Natureの記事。研究者の5人に1人が集中力を高めたりするのにクスリを使っているという調査結果。マジすか。

Poll results: look who's doping
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080409/full/452674a.html

Spurred by the tremendous response, Nature ran its own informal survey. 1,400 people from 60 countries responded to the online poll.
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One in five respondents said they had used drugs for non-medical reasons to stimulate their focus, concentration or memory.
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The most popular reason for taking the drugs was to improve concentration. Improving focus for a specific task (admittedly difficult to distinguish from concentration) ranked a close second and counteracting jet lag ranked fourth, behind 'other' which received a few interesting reasons, such as “party”, “house cleaning” and “to actually see if there was any validity to the afore-mentioned article”.

この記事によるとたまたま今年のエイプリルフールに進化生物学者のJonathan Eisenが中心になって、brain dopingネタを広めていたらしい。

Apparently, they are working on making a list of banned drugs and punishment for misuse for anyone funded by NIH. I have also heard they will be doing drug testing to new grant awardees. Lovely.

What is so bad about brain doping? Apparently, NIH thinks something is.
http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-is-so-bad-about-brain-doping.html

その後、エイプリルフールのジョークだったと告白
http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/04/confessions-of-april-fool-and-dope-on.html

彼はネタとして書いていたんだけど、Natureがホントに調査していたということに。

朝日新聞の記事
http://www.asahi.com/science/update/0411/TKY200804110041.html