BSc(Hons)Chemistry|5th year @Purdue_MCMP PhD candidate in @Van_Rijn_Lab|Med chem and neuropharm researcher|Interests in neuroscience, drugs of abuse and policy
I deeply distrust demands for the dismantling of long-standing systems and institutions that are not accompanied by detailed, deeply-researched and considered alternatives.
Anyone can destroy an imperfect system. The question is, can *you* build a better one?
Preprint now available of our (@Van_Rijn_Lab) and @Altmaniacs new joint research paper looking at functional selectivity and C-terminal modifications of a fluoroalkyl stabilized leu-enkephalin derivative! https://t.co/6gbx1zwcka
For those of you who know him, or care about his plight, or wrote letters on his behalf as I did, William Leonard Pickard is being released, compassionately.
Very good read for anyone curious about some of the little known psychological side-effects of many common drugs (and why I eat so much red meat...):
https://t.co/d7PjfUWkzp
@ape_modern Depends entirely on your definition, but the whole "arrow of time" thing suggests coherence/wavefunction collapse adds stochastism to our future experience, so even if we're acting at random we're at least free :p
@BeckleyResearch Given the absolute shambles that is mental Healthcare in England, there are certainly scenarios in which self-medication with psilocybin could be life-saving, in which case it should not be discouraged.
@arghavan_salles @sgonz114 Can't forget Rosalind Franklin (discovery of structure of DNA and many others), Frances Oldham Kelsey (prevented the expansion of the thalidomide tragedy to the USA) and the still alive, kicking and always impressive Mary Jeanne Kreek (addiction pharmacotherapy)
@mbeisen I mean it's kinda funky, but without proof that they discriminated against any particular groups you're the one actually judging people for their gender and skin tone, which I'm sure you would agree is unacceptable.