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'Killer' Ecstasy claim was false
(BBC News, 8 September 2003)
Research suggesting just one Ecstasy tablet could harm humans was based on a laboratory mistake, it has been revealed. . . . The Johns Hopkins University team were forced to withdraw their paper from eminent research journal Science. . . . Experts have expressed amazement as to how the flawed research ever managed to get published in such a well-respected publication. . . . Colin Blakemore, a Professor of Physiology at Oxford University, said that the sheer number of primates left dead or severely damaged already seemed implausible. He told the BBC: "Whatever we think about the toxicity of Ecstasy, 40% of people using it each weekend do not die." . . . The original study suggested that even a single episode of Ecstasy use might be enough to produce long-lasting drops in the brain's ability to produce the vital chemical dopamine. . . . He said he was unsure how the normally-rigourous "peer-reviewing" procedure - in which other leading scientists are asked to look over research papers prior to publication looking for mistakes - had failed in this instance.

[COMMENT by Lorenzo: It is obvious how this alleged "mistake" happened. The good reputation of Johns Hopkins has been subverted by it's addiction to government funding. In my opinion, Ricaurte has been conducting shoddy science in the government's name for a long time. He has never, as far as I can find, disagreed with a single position of the drug warriors, even when they were obviously delusional.]

posted by LoZo 4:41 PM