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Editorial
Nature 425, 223 (18 September 2003) | doi:10.1038/425223a
Ecstasy's after-effects
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Abstract
Following the retraction of a high-profile paper, the US research agency that supports research on drug abuse needs to ensure its independence from intense political pressure to prove that recreational drugs are harmful.
It was a pretty peculiar result in the first place. Neuroscientist George Ricaurte and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, reported that they had injected monkeys and baboons with the equivalent of three recreational hits of ecstasy, with shocking consequences.
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