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No, my question is why someone with a job unrelated to subject didn’t bother to do enough research to find out something as simple as the fact that amphetamines were already used to boost productivity in Huxley’s era before writing as if he had some authority on the subject. One would think that if you are not an authority in a subject you want to write on, you should do at least the equivalent of a child’s book repo…
Sounds like you have unmet expectations. It’s not really fair to get mad at the author.
It is completely fair to expect an author presenting himself as an authority on a subject to have done cursory research on said subject.
The title and premise of the article are a blatant lie.