Comment · Fri, March 4, 2016 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Smart drugs: A dose of intelligence
What they were answering
BigYellowLemon · 7 points
I have never read an article about nootropics that left me with anything but anger and annoyance.
The only "nootropics" I ever hear about are methylphenidate, modafinil, caffeine, and nicotine, with a few memantines and galantamines thrown in rarely.
Nootropics getting media attention is not what I thought it'd be. I thought with the new interest in increasing intelligence we'd get a lot of new methods and research. Instead we get MTV and friends wanting to exploit nootropics for entertainment, shitty articles repeating the same nootropics over and over - modafinil ritalin modafinil ritalin, papers arguing the "ethics" of nootropic enhancement, but the main negative is that this new interest is getting the attention of the government and the nootropic-uneducated, literally the worst two groups of people I can think of.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
It's because the people that actually have something to say don't want to talk, and the people that want to talk have nothing to say. Did the world need another article about amphetamine, methylphenidate, and modafinil? I really don't think so. That's annoying enough. However, him acting as an authority, and calling smart drugs primitive, is just ridiculous. That would be like me calling particle physics primitive, because I had only seen a single TEDx talk about it, and didn't bother to research it further.
Ohh, and I blame the writer, not Sensi. He is a researcher that studies Modafinil. So him saying things in that frame of reference is not unexpected. A good journalist would realize that an expert on Modafinil is not necessarily an expert on Nootropics as a whole.